demoralized

Meaning of demoralized

adjective
  1. having lost confidence or hope; disheartened.
    how do you motivate demoralized employees?
verb, past tense
  1. cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope.
    the General Strike had demoralized the trade unions
  2. corrupt the morals of (someone).
    she hastened her daughter's steps, lest she be demoralized by beholding the free manners of these ‘mad English’

late 18th century: from French démoraliser (a word of the French Revolution), from dé- (expressing reversal) + moral ‘moral’, from Latin moralis .

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Hyphenation of demoralized

de-mor-al-ized

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • demoralized is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

demoralized synonyms

Meaning demoralised:

discouraged, disheartened

Meaning cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence:

dishearten

Meaning cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope:

dispirit

Meaning make sad or dispirited; depress:

deject

Meaning make (someone) feel utterly dispirited or dejected:

depress

Meaning cause (someone) to feel concern and distress:

dismay, dismayed

Meaning make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive:

daunt, daunted

Meaning cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm:

discourage

Meaning deprive of qualities traditionally associated with men, such as self-control or courage:

unman

Meaning make (someone) lose courage or confidence:

unnerve, unnerved

Meaning make (someone) feel overwhelmingly disappointed or embarrassed:

crush

Meaning gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power):

sap, sapped

Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:

shake, shaken

Meaning propel (something) with force through the air by a movement of the arm and hand:

throw, thrown

Meaning a fully grown female animal of a domesticated breed of ox, kept to produce milk or beef:

cow

Meaning overcome, quieten, or bring under control (a feeling or person):

subdue

Meaning erode the base or foundation of (a rock formation):

undermine, undermined

Meaning deprive of strength and vigour:

devitalize, devitalized

Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:

weaken

Meaning make weak or feeble:

enfeeble

Meaning make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality:

enervate

Meaning having lost enthusiasm and hope; disheartened:

dispirited

Meaning discouraged; in low spirits:

downhearted

Meaning sad and depressed; dispirited:

dejected

Meaning (of a person's eyes) looking downwards:

downcast

Meaning of less than average height from top to bottom or to the top from the ground:

low

Meaning (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency:

depressed

Meaning showing the loss of all hope:

despairing

Meaning very unhappy and unable to be comforted:

disconsolate

Meaning sad and disappointed:

crestfallen

Meaning sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one's hopes or expectations:

disappointed

Meaning not having or needing a crew or staff:

unmanned

Meaning deformed, pulverized, or forced inwards by compression:

crushed

Meaning cause (someone) to feel less important or proud:

humbled

Meaning cause (someone) to submit to one's wishes by intimidation:

cowed

Meaning (of a person or their manner) quiet and rather reflective or depressed:

subdued

Meaning cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry:

drained

demoralized antonyms

Meaning give support, confidence, or hope to (someone):

encourage

Meaning make more cheerful or confident:

hearten

Words that rhyme with demoralized

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