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- Dictionarydiscouraged/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒd/
adjective
- 1. having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened: "he must be feeling pretty discouraged"
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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.
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.
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.
When you discourage someone, you try to talk them out of doing something, by pointing out reasons why their planned action would be unwise. The verb discourage has roots in the French word descouragier, which comes from des-, meaning “away,” and corage, or “courage.”.
The adjective describes people who no longer feel that good things will happen, such as discouraged job-seekers, who despite sending hundreds of applications to prospective employers, never get any responses. They may have "lost the courage" to keep looking for work.
to try to prevent something or to prevent somebody from doing something, especially by making it difficult to do or by showing that you do not approve of it. discourage (doing) something a campaign to discourage smoking among teenagers.
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.
