demoralizing
adjective, verb
demoralizing is an adjective meaning “Disheartening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-M-O-R-A-L-I-Z-I-N-G and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does demoralizing mean?
adjective
- 1
Disheartening.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of demoralize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce demoralizing?
Demoralizing has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of demoralizing
- more demoralizing comparative
- most demoralizing superlative
- demoralising
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is demoralizing?
Demoralizing appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Demoralizing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | desmoralizante, desmoralizador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.