dispiritingly
adverb
uk/dɪˈspɪr.ɪ.tɪŋ.li/us/dɪˈspɪr.ə.t̬ɪŋ.li/in a way thatcausesyou to not have muchhopeabout aparticularsituationorproblem:
（令人）气馁地，（令人）沮丧地Thewholesituationseemeddispiritinglyfamiliar.整个情况似乎令人沮丧地熟悉。
What could make him do such a thing? Theanswer, dispiritingly, ismoney.是什么能让他做出这样的事情呢？令人沮丧的是，答案是钱。
- The movie'sspecialeffectsareimpressive, but theatmosphereremainsdispiritinglyflat.
- All hisshotswent dispiritinglywideof thegoal.
- Theirsuccessproveddispiritinglyshort-lived.
- Dispiritingly, only 30% ofbusinessessofarhaveachievedthetarget.
Not hopeful
- be in a funkidiom
- be on a hiding to nothingidiom
- bleak
- bleakly
- bleakness
- dispiritedness
- doomed
- doomster
- downcast
- downhearted
- forlorn
- gloom
- hopelessly
- hopelessness
- lose heartidiom
- merchant
- merchant of doom/gloomidiom
- someonecan't winidiom
- undone
- what are you going to do?idiom