Hearten, meaning to encourage or impart courage to someone, has several antonyms that convey the opposite meaning. One such antonym is "dishearten," which means to discourage or demotivate someone. Another antonym is "discourage," which means to dissuade or prevent someone from taking action. "Demoralize" is another antonym of hearten, meaning to undermine the confidence or morale of someone. "Dismay" and "dispirit," are other antonyms that can be used to express the opposite of hearten. All of these words have a negative connotation and can dampen a person's spirit or drive.

What are the antonyms for Hearten?

n.
• dishearten
- dishearten
v.
• appall
- appal
- gross out
- grossed out
- grossing out
- out raged
- out rages
- out-rage
- out-raged
- out-rages
- out-raging
• browbeat, intimidate
- cow
• chill
- air condition
- air conditioned
- air conditions
- air-condition
- air-conditioned
- air-conditioning
- air-conditions
- aircondition
- airconditioned
- airconditioning
- airconditions
- frosted
- iced
• cool
- re duce
- re duces
- re press
- re pressed
- re presses
- re pressing
- re strain
- re strained
- re straining
- re strains
- re-duce
- re-duces
- re-presses
- re-pressing
- re-strain
- re-strained
- re-straining
- re-strains
- simmered down
- simmering down
- simmers down
• cow
- Buffaloes
- Dragooned
- Dragooning
- Overawing
- bludgeoned
- bludgeoning
- buffalo
- buffaloed
- buffaloing
- co wed
- co wing
- co-wed
- co-wing
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- dragoon
- dragoons
- lean on
- leaned on
- leaning on
- leans on
- leant on
- over awe
- over awed
- over awes
- over awing
- over-awe
- over-awed
- over-awes
- over-awing
- overawe
- overawed
- overawes
- push around
- pushed around
- pushing around
- showboat
- showboated
- showboating
- showboats
- strong arm
- strongarm
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
- turn heat
- turn on heat
- turn on the heat
- turn the heat
- turned heat
- turned on heat
- turned on the heat
- turned the heat
- turning heat
- turning on heat
- turning on the heat
- turning the heat
- turns heat
- turns on heat
- turns on the heat
- turns the heat
- un-nerves
- walk heavy
- walked heavy
- walking heavy
- walks heavy
• criticize; detract from
- disparage
• dampen
- Bedewing
- Besprinkled
- Besprinkling
- Dulling
- be dew
- be dewed
- be dewing
- be dews
- be sprinkle
- be sprinkled
- be sprinkles
- be sprinkling
- be-dew
- be-dewed
- be-dewing
- be-dews
- be-sprinkle
- be-sprinkled
- be-sprinkles
- be-sprinkling
- bedew
- bedewed
- bedews
- besprinkle
- besprinkles
- de aden
- de adens
- de-aden
- de-adens
- dulls
- humidified
- humidifies
- humidify
- humidifying
• daunt
- put off
• deject, make despondent; exhaust
- depress
• demoralize
- DAMPS
- Damped
- Damping
- Unglue
- blew out
- blow out
- blowing out
- blows out
- de moralize
- de moralized
- de moralizes
- de moralizing
- de-moralize
- de-moralized
- de-moralizes
- de-moralizing
- dis arrange
- dis arranged
- dis arranges
- dis arranging
- dis countenance
- dis countenanced
- dis countenances
- dis countenancing
- dis order
- dis ordered
- dis ordering
- dis orders
- dis organize
- dis organized
- dis organizes
- dis organizing
- dis-arrange
- dis-arranged
- dis-arranges
- dis-arranging
- dis-countenance
- dis-countenanced
- dis-countenances
- dis-countenancing
- dis-order
- dis-ordered
- dis-ordering
- dis-orders
- dis-organize
- dis-organized
- dis-organizes
- dis-organizing
- gat to
- get to
- gets to
- getting to
- got to
- gotten to
- psych out
- psyched out
- psyching out
- psychs out
- send up
- sending up
- sends up
- sent up
- take apart
- take steam out
- takes apart
- takes steam out
- taking apart
- taking steam out
- took apart
- un glued
- un glues
- un gluing
- un manned
- un manning
- un mans
- un settle
- un settled
- un settles
- un settling
- un zip
- un zipping
- un zips
- un-glue
- un-glued
- un-gluing
- un-man
- un-manning
- un-mans
- un-settle
- un-settled
- un-settling
- un-zipped
- un-zipping
- un-zips
- under mined
- under mining
- under-mined
- under-mining
- unglues
- ungluing
- unmanned
- unmanning
- unmans
- up set
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
• depress
- beat down
- beating down
- beats down
- bum out
- bummed out
- bumming out
- bums out
- cast down
- casting down
- casts down
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de solate
- de solated
- de solates
- de solating
- de vitalize
- de vitalized
- de vitalizes
- de vitalizing
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- de-solate
- de-solated
- de-solates
- de-solating
- de-vitalize
- de-vitalized
- de-vitalizes
- de-vitalizing
- dis tress
- dis tressed
- dis tresses
- dis-tress
- dis-tressed
- dis-tresses
- keep under
- keeping under
- keeps under
- kept under
- reduce tears
- reduce to tears
- reduced to tears
- reduces to tears
- reducing tears
- reducing to tears
- threw cold water on
- throwing cold water on
- throws cold water on
- turned one off
- turning one off
- turns one off
• deter
- Disadvise
- Forfend
- act like a wet blanket
- act like wet blanket
- acted like a wet blanket
- acted like wet blanket
- acting like a wet blanket
- acting like wet blanket
- acts like a wet blanket
- acts like wet blanket
- de bar
- de barred
- de barring
- de bars
- de-bar
- de-barred
- de-barring
- de-bars
- dis advise
- dis advised
- dis advises
- dis advising
- dis-advise
- dis-advised
- dis-advises
- dis-advising
- disadvised
- disadvises
- disadvising
- fore stall
- fore stalling
- fore stalls
- fore-stall
- fore-stalled
- fore-stalling
- fore-stalls
- forfended
- forfending
- pre vent
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
- put a damper on
- put damper on
- puts a damper on
- puts damper on
- putting damper on
- talk out of
- talked out of
- talking out of
- talks out of
• discourage
- Disfavored
- Disfavoring
- Disinclining
- Indisposing
- brake heart
- brake one heart
- brake one's heart
- brake ones heart
- break heart
- break one heart
- break one's heart
- break ones heart
- breaking heart
- breaking one heart
- breaking one's heart
- breaking ones heart
- breaks heart
- breaks one heart
- breaks one's heart
- breaks ones heart
- broke heart
- broke one heart
- broke one's heart
- broke ones heart
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis favor
- dis favored
- dis favoring
- dis favors
- dis incline
- dis inclined
- dis inclines
- dis inclining
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-favor
- dis-favored
- dis-favoring
- dis-favors
- dis-incline
- dis-inclined
- dis-inclines
- dis-inclining
- disincline
- disinclines
- in dispose
- in disposed
- in disposes
- in disposing
- in-disposed
- in-disposes
- in-disposing
- indispose
- indisposes
- inter fere
- inter feres
- inter-fere
- inter-feres
- keeping back
- keeps back
- kept back
- throw cold water on
- turn aside
- turned aside
- turning aside
- turns aside
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
• dishearten
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- get down
- got down
- in-dispose
- putting a damper on
- threw a pall over
- threw pall over
- throw a pall over
- throw pall over
- throwing a pall over
- throwing pall over
- throws a pall over
- throws pall over
• dishearten, dispirit
- discourage
• dismay
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- dis compose
- dis composed
- dis composes
- dis composing
- dis illusion
- dis illusioned
- dis illusions
- dis may
- dis mayed
- dis maying
- dis mays
- dis quiet
- dis quieted
- dis quieting
- dis quiets
- dis-compose
- dis-composed
- dis-composes
- dis-composing
- dis-illusion
- dis-illusioned
- dis-illusions
- dis-may
- dis-mayed
- dis-maying
- dis-mays
- dis-quiet
- dis-quieted
- dis-quieting
- dis-quiets
- muck up
- mucked up
- mucking up
- mucks up
- snafued
- snafuing
- takes aback
- taking aback
- threw in to a tizzy
- threw in to tizzy
- threw into a tizzy
- threw into tizzy
- throw in to a tizzy
- throw in to tizzy
- throw into a tizzy
- throw into tizzy
- throwing in to a tizzy
- throwing in to tizzy
- throwing into a tizzy
- throwing into tizzy
- throws in to a tizzy
- throws into a tizzy
- throws into tizzy
- un hinge
- un hinged
- un hinges
- un hinging
- un-hinge
- un-hinged
- un-hinges
- un-hinging
• disparage
- DISES
- Dispraised
- Dispraising
- be little
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- cried down
- cries down
- cry down
- crying down
- de cried
- de cries
- de cry
- de crying
- de fame
- de famed
- de fames
- de faming
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-cried
- de-cries
- de-cry
- de-crying
- de-fame
- de-famed
- de-fames
- de-faming
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- dis
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- dispraise
- dispraises
- dissed
- disses
- dissing
- downcried
- downcries
- downcry
- downcrying
- dump on
- dumped on
- dumping on
- dumps on
- put hooks in
- puts hooks in
- soured grapes
- souring grapes
- sours grapes
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under rate
- under rated
- under rates
- under rating
- under value
- under valued
- under values
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimates
- under-estimating
- under-rate
- under-rated
- under-rates
- under-rating
- under-value
- under-valued
- under-values
- under-valuing
• frighten
- chill bone
- chill the bone
- chill to bone
- chill to the bone
- chilled bone
- chilled the bone
- chilled to bone
- chilled to the bone
- chilling bone
- chilling the bone
- chilling to bone
- chilling to the bone
- chills bone
- chills the bone
- chills to bone
- chills to the bone
- curdle blood
- curdle the blood
- curdled blood
- curdled the blood
- curdles blood
- curdles the blood
- curdling blood
- curdling the blood
- dis burb
- dis burbs
- dis comfort
- dis comforted
- dis comforting
- dis comforts
- dis-burb
- dis-burbs
- dis-comfort
- dis-comforted
- dis-comforting
- dis-comforts
- disburb
- disburbed
- disburbing
- disburbs
- made blood run cold
- made teeth chatter
- make teeth chatter
- making blood run cold
- making teeth chatter
- scare away
- scare off
- scare to death
- scared away
- scared death
- scared off
- scared to death
- scares away
- scares death
- scarify
- scaring away
- scaring death
- scaring to death
- stiffed
- stiffing
- stiffs
- strike terror in to
- strike terror into
- strikes terror in to
- strikes terror into
- striking terror in to
- striking terror into
- strook terror in to
- strook terror into
- struck terror in to
- struck terror into
• frighten, threaten
- intimidate
• frustrate
- counter act
- counter acted
- counter acting
- counter acts
- counter-act
- counter-acted
- counter-acting
- counter-acts
- cramp one style
- cramp one's style
- cramp ones style
- cramp style
- cramped one style
- cramped one's style
- cramped ones style
- cramped style
- cramping one style
- cramping one's style
- cramping ones style
- cramping style
- cramps one style
- cramps one's style
- cramps ones style
- cramps style
- dash hope
- dash one hope
- dash one's hope
- dash ones hope
- dashed hope
- dashed one hope
- dashed one's hope
- dashed ones hope
- dashes hope
- dashes one hope
- dashes one's hope
- dashes ones hope
- dashing hope
- dashing one hope
- dashing one's hope
- dashing ones hope
- de feat
- de feats
- de-feat
- de-feats
- gave run around
- give run around
- give the run around
- gives run around
- giving run around
- giving the run around
- hang up
- hanged up
- hanging up
- out wit
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witting
- over come
- over comes
- over coming
- over-comes
- over-coming
- render null and void
- rendered null and void
- rendered null void
- rendering null and void
- rendering null void
- renders null and void
- renders null void
- upset applecart
• horrify
- appall
• intimidate
- twist someone arm
- twist someone's arm
- twist someones arm
- twisted someone arm
- twisted someone's arm
- twisted someones arm
- twisting someone arm
- twisting someone's arm
- twisting someones arm
- twists someone arm
- twists someone's arm
- twists someones arm
• make cold
- chill
• noun
- PSYCH
- debilitate
- enfeeble
- hamstring
- sadden
- undermine
- weaken
• raise someone's spirits
- bring down
- calm
- dissuade
- dull
- hurt
• sadden
- Downs
- bring one down
- bringing one down
- brings one down
- brought one down
- dampen spirits
- dampened spirits
- dampening spirits
- dampens spirits
- downed
- downing
- drag down
- dragged down
- dragging down
- drags down
- made blue
- make blue
- makes blue
- making blue
- put in to a funk
- put in to funk
- put into a funk
- put into funk
- puts in to a funk
- puts in to funk
- puts into a funk
- putting in to a funk
- putting into a funk
- putting into funk
• scarify
- made hair stand end
- made one blood run cold
- made one hair stand end
- made one hair stand on end
- made one's blood run cold
- made one's hair stand end
- made one's hair stand on end
- made ones blood run cold
- made ones hair stand end
- made ones hair stand on end
- make hair stand end
- make hair stand on end
- make one hair stand end
- make one hair stand on end
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's hair stand end
- make ones blood run cold
- make ones hair stand end
- make ones hair stand on end
- makes hair stand end
- makes hair stand on end
- makes one blood run cold
- makes one's blood run cold
- makes one's hair stand end
- makes one's hair stand on end
- makes ones blood run cold
- makes ones hair stand end
- makes ones hair stand on end
- making hair stand end
- making hair stand on end
- making one blood run cold
- making one hair stand end
- making one hair stand on end
- making one's blood run cold
- making one's hair stand end
- making one's hair stand on end
- making ones hair stand end
- making ones hair stand on end
- scared the daylights out of
- scares daylights out of
- scares the daylights out of
- scaring daylights out of
- scaring the daylights out of
- sillied
- sillies
- sillying
• shock, scare
- frighten
• stop
- freeze
• take a break; abate
- cool
• thwart, disappoint
- frustrate
• unnerve
- Uncalm
- dis armed
- dis arming
- dis arms
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-armed
- dis-arming
- dis-arms
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
- gave a turn
- gave turn
- give a turn
- give turn
- gives a turn
- gives turn
- giving a turn
- giving turn
- un calm
- un calmed
- un calming
- un calms
- un nerve
- un nerved
- un nerves
- un nerving
- un-calmed
- un-calming
- un-calms
- un-nerve
- un-nerving
- uncalmed
- uncalming
- uncalms
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Usage examples for Hearten

To be permitted to hearten their mother was to them a great privilege, and suddenly little Jim did not appear the hopeless case he had seemed when they went to bed the night before.

"The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys"

Gulielma Zollinger

That will hearten her more than corn.

"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"

Grant Allen

As Hilda had predicted, they seemed to hearten her.

"Hilda Wade A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose"

Grant Allen

Famous quotes with Hearten

He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle to steady his fellow countrymen and hearten those Europeans upon whom the long dark night of tyranny had descended.

Edward R. Murrow
I do inspire/motivate you/the world/posterity ahead not just for pleasure. But rather, I do inspire/motivate just to hearten you/the world/posterity ahead i.e. I do inspire/motivate in order to encourage you, make you hopeful, more cheerful and confident. That's just why I do inspire/motivate you/the world/posterity ahead. And guess what? I'm proud of that/glad for that.

Emeasoba George

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