dispiriting
Drains your morale
Dispiriting describes something that drains enthusiasm or hope: The team's losing streak was dispiriting.
A dispiriting situation makes you feel defeated or discouraged before you've even tried.
The word suggests a slow deflation of spirit rather than sudden devastation: After months of dispiriting job interviews, she finally got an offer.
Causing loss of hope
- discouragingCausing loss of confidence
- dismayingCausing loss of confidence
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- dejectingLowering someone's spirits
daunting · deflating · demotivating · disillusioning · frustrating · disconcerting · depressing · dampening
Dark and dispiriting
- dismalDepressingly dark or dull
- drearyDull and depressing
- somberGravely serious in mood
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
desolate · cheerless · joyless · gray · dark · forlorn · melancholy · morose
Depleting one's stamina
- debilitatingCausing severe impairment
- enervatingCausing loss of vigor
- wearyingCausing gradual exhaustion
- fatiguingCausing weariness or exhaustion
sapping · depleting · taxing · wearing · tiring · devitalizing · soul-crushing · numbing
Lacking any purpose
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- uselessWithout practical value
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
- vainExcessively proud or futile
unavailing · ineffectual · purposeless · Sisyphean · unwinnable · doomed · lost · insurmountable
disheartening
Causing loss of hope
- discouragingCausing loss of confidence
- dismayingCausing loss of confidence
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
dejecting · daunting · deflating · demotivating · disillusioning · frustrating · disconcerting · depressing · dampening · disenchanting
gloomy
Dark and dispiriting
hopeless · desolate · cheerless · joyless · gray · dark · forlorn · melancholy · morose · funereal
exhausting
Depleting one's stamina
- debilitatingCausing severe impairment
- enervatingCausing loss of vigor
- wearyingCausing gradual exhaustion
fatiguing · sapping · depleting · taxing · wearing · tiring · devitalizing · soul-crushing · numbing · grinding
pointless
Lacking any purpose
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- uselessWithout practical value
- fruitlessProducing no useful outcome
vain · unavailing · ineffectual · purposeless · Sisyphean · unwinnable · doomed · lost · insurmountable · impossible
- dispiritingdemoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, deflating, demotivating
- sombergloomy, bleak, dreary, dismal, melancholy
- discouragementdiscouragement, dejection, defeatism, disappointment, letdown
- exhaustingdraining, taxing, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing
- deflationballoon, tire, puncture, leak, collapse
dispiritingencouraging
Giving confidence or hope
heartening · uplifting · inspiring · cheering · motivating
dispiritinghopeful
Feeling positive expectation
promising · optimistic · reassuring · auspicious · eye-opening