Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DISPIRITING
ppr. Discouraging; disheartening; dejecting; intimidating.
New American Oxford Dictionary
dispiriting
dis pir it ing |disˈspiritiNG dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ | ▶adjective causing someone to lose enthusiasm and hope; disheartening: it was a dispiriting occasion. DERIVATIVES dis pir it ing ly adverb
Oxford Dictionary
dispiriting
dispiriting |dɪˈspɪrɪtɪŋ | ▶adjective causing someone to lose enthusiasm and hope; disheartening: it was a dispiriting occasion. DERIVATIVES dispiritingly adverb
American Oxford Thesaurus
dispiriting
dispiriting adjective a dispiriting view of the future: disheartening, depressing, discouraging, daunting, demoralizing.
Oxford Thesaurus
dispiriting
dispiriting adjective the article gives a dispiriting view of the future: disheartening, depressing, discouraging, disappointing, daunting, disenchanting, demoralizing; unfavourable, inauspicious, off-putting, pessimistic, hopeless, grim, dismal, gloomy, sombre, cheerless, black; informal morbid; archaic dejecting.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
dispiriting
dis p í r it ing 形容詞 ⦅書 ⦆意気消沈させる (ほどの ).