🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

हतोत्साहित

Native Script:हтоत्साहित

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hatotsahit

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Downhearted/ˈdaʊnˌhɑːr.tɪd/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"परीक्षा में कम अंक आने से वह हतोत्साहित हो गया था।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Feeling discouraged, dejected, or lacking in confidence and hope.

    "She felt rather downhearted after receiving the rejection letter from her dream university."
  2. 2

    Depressed in spirits or morale, typically as a result of a setback or failure.

    "The team was understandably downhearted following their narrow defeat in the championship."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the adverb 'down' (meaning low in spirits) and the participle of 'heart', tracing back to Middle English concepts where emotional state was viewed as residing in the heart. It has been used since the 16th century to describe discouragement and dejection.

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