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 Englishdishearteningdis‧heart‧en‧ing /dɪsˈhɑːtn-ɪŋ $ -ɑːr-/ adjective HOPEmaking you lose hope and determinationit is disheartening to hear/see etc something It’s disheartening to see what little progress has been made. —dishearteningly adverbExamples from the Corpus
disheartening• Their data-gathering can be a disheartening exercise.• For many college graduates, job hunting can be a disheartening struggle. 