Word family noun heart heartlessness heartiness adjective heartened ≠ disheartened heartening ≠ disheartening heartless hearty verb hearten ≠ dishearten adverb heartily heartlessly hearteningly ≠ dishearteningly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdishearteneddis‧heart‧ened /dɪsˈhɑːtnd $ -ɑːrtnd/ adjective formal DISAPPOINTEDdisappointed, so that you lose hope and the determination to continue doing something If young children don’t see quick results they grow disheartened. —dishearten verb [transitive]Examples from the Corpus
disheartened• Each day, Lou came back from the mailbox disheartened.• My only worry is that, with the ground drying up, they might go so fast that he gets disheartened.• A disheartened army continued towards Taunton where, hearing of the superior army approaching from London, Warbeck slipped away. 