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- Dictionarydiscouraged/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒd/
adjective
- 1. having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened: "he must be feeling pretty discouraged"
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having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something: I think he felt discouraged because of all the criticism he'd received. Synonym. demoralized. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. displeased. dissatisfied.
to try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something, or to have the effect of making something less likely: We tried to discourage him from spending so much money. Higher taxes could discourage business investment.
1. : to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten. was discouraged by repeated failure. 2. a. : to hinder by disfavoring. trying to discourage absenteeism. b. : to dissuade or attempt to dissuade from doing something. tried to discourage her from going. discourageable. di-ˈskər-i-jə-bəl. -ˈskə-ri- adjective. discourager noun. discouragingly.
to make someone feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something: The thought of how much work she had to do discouraged her. Opposite. encourage. Fewer examples. Don't let me discourage you if it's what you want to do. Her criticism had discouraged him. Don't let her comments discourage you.
Discouraged definition: deprived of or lacking in courage, hope, or confidence. See examples of DISCOURAGED used in a sentence.
To discourage is to dishearten by expressing disapproval or by suggesting that a contemplated action or course will probably fail: He was discouraged from going into business. To dismay is to dishearten completely: Her husband's philandering dismayed her.
To discourage is to dishearten by expressing disapproval or by suggesting that a contemplated action will probably fail: He was discouraged from going into business. To dismay is to dishearten, shock, or bewilder by sudden difficulties or danger: a prosecutor dismayed by disclosures of new evidence.
