Word: disheartening
Part of speech: Adjective
Syllables: dis
hear
te
ning
Definition: Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
Morphemes:
Affix: dis-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Used as an intensifier of words with negative valence.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: dis-
Language: la
Decoded: dis-
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: utterly, exceedingly
Affix: heart
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Personality, disposition.
Affix: -en
Language: en
Meaning: inchoative
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.