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Synonyms for disheartened
The synonym for disheartened recorded in this bank is discouraged, in the sense "made less hopeful or enthusiastic". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for disheartened
- discouragedadjective, in the sense "made less hopeful or enthusiastic"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day disheartened is audited in a second meaning.
made less hopeful or enthusiastic
The disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest.
The true synonym
discouraged
Same sentence, swapped: The discouraged instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where disheartened stands in the sentence above.
- droopy
- hypochondriac
- drooping
Where disheartened turns up in the game
disheartened is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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