disheartened
adjective
- To be deprived of confidence
Wiktionary
adj
- Discouraged, despairing.
“He refused to get disheartened, even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.”
verb
- simple past and past participle of dishearten
“He refused to get disheartened, even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.”