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- Dictionarydiscouraging/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing: "a discouraging experience"
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DISCOURAGING definition: 1. making you feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to…. Learn more.
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 deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit. Synonyms: intimidate, cow, overawe, disparage, abash, deject, depress, daunt. Antonyms: encourage. to dissuade (usually followed by from ). to obstruct by opposition or difficulty; hinder: Low prices discourage industry.
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.
Definitions of discouraging. adjective. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action. “where never is heard a discouraging word” synonyms: daunting, intimidating. discouraging through fear. demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting. destructive of morale and self-reliance. frustrating.
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.”.
1. To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit: Making so little progress after so much effort discouraged us. 2. To dissuade or deter (someone) from doing something: My adviser discouraged me from applying to big universities. 3.
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.
SYNONYMS 1. daunt, depress, deject, overawe, cow, abash. discourage, dismay, intimidate mean to dishearten or frighten. 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 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.
