| 单词 | demoralizing |
| 释义 | demoralizing (once / 5783 pages) adj Things that discourage you, or make you lose confidence, are demoralizing. It can be demoralizing to study hard for a test and do badly on it. When you are rejected — getting turned down for a job or a date or a scholarship — it's demoralizing. If people whose opinions you value put you down or belittle you, that's demoralizing too. A more old-fashioned meaning of the word is "corrupting someone's morals," from the French démoraliser, which is thought to have been coined during the French Revolution. WORD FAMILYdemoralizing: demoralizingly+/demoralization: demoralizations/demoralize: demoralisation, demoralization, demoralized, demoralizes, demoralizing USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1884, Harvard tried to ban it for being “brutal, demoralizing to teams and spectators, and extremely dangerous.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The Cougars began the year 0-2, with a demoralizing opening loss to Eastern Washington at home. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) Echoing the themes in “Mastering Civility,” George W. Bush’s former C.I.A. director expressed concerns over the demoralizing impact of such comments. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) adj destructive of morale and self-reliance Syn demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting discouraging depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action |
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