dispirit

Other forms of dispirit

past tense

dispiritted·

present participle

dispiritting·

third person

dispirits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dispirit

What does dispirit mean?

dispirit means "lower someone's spirits; make downhearted".

How many syllables are in dispirit?

dispirit has 3 syllables: di-spi-rit. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for dispirit?

Close synonyms include depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dispirit a common word?

dispirit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.