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dispirited

Depressed in spirits; deprived of cheer or enthusiasm; disheartened; discouraged; daunted.

dispiriting

causing dejection; discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.

Dispiteous

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless.

Displace

To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.

Displacement

The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

Displacency

Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.

Displant

To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant inhabitants.

Displat

To untwist; to uncurl; to unplat.

Display

An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.

Displayed

Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.

Disple

To discipline; to correct.

Displeasing

Causing displeasure or dissatisfaction; offensive; disagreeable.

Displenish

To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock.

Displode

To burst with a loud report; to explode.

Displume

To strip of, or as of, a plume, or plumes; to deprive of decoration; to dishonor; to degrade.

Dispoline

One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

Dispondee

A double spondee; a foot consisting of four long syllables.

Disponee

The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

Disponer

One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

Disponge

To sprinkle, as with water from a sponge.

Dispope

To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom.

Disport

To divert or amuse; to make merry.

Disposable

Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.

disposable income

that portion of income which is available for spending on discretionary purchases; for individuals, it is usually calculated as total income less taxes. National disposable income, which is the disposable income of all individuals and businesses, is calculated as total national income minus taxes plus transfer payments.

Disposal

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

Dispose

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

Disposedness

The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.

Disposer

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

Disposition

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

Dispositioned

Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.

Dispositively

In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.

Dispossess

To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

dispossessed

physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.

Dispossession

The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.

Dispost

To eject from a post; to displace.

Disposure

The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

Dispraise

The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement.

Disprison

To let loose from prison, to set at liberty.

Disprofess

To renounce the profession or pursuit of.

Disprofit

To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit.

Disproof

A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

Disproperty

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of.

Disproportion

To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

Disproportionable

Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.

Disproportional

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

Disproportionally

In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

Disproportionate

Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.

Dispropriate

To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate.

Disprove

To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

Dispurpose

To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots.

Disputable

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.

disputant

One who disputes; one who argues in opposition to another; one appointed to dispute; a controvertist; a reasoner in opposition.

Disputation

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

Disputatious

Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper.

Disputative

Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper.

Dispute

Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.

Disputer

One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist.

Disqualification

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

disqualified

rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting.

disqualify

To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.

Disquiet

To render unquiet; to deprive of peace, rest, or tranquility; to make uneasy or restless; to disturb.

Disquietal

The act of disquieting; a state of disquiet.

Disquieter

One who, or that which, disquiets, or makes uneasy; a disturber.

Disquietly

In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night.

Disquietment

State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment.

Disquietness

Disturbance of quiet in body or mind; restlessness; uneasiness.

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