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- Dictionarydiscourage/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒ/
verb
- 1. cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm: "tedious regulations could discourage investors" Similar Opposite
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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.
The meaning of DISCOURAGE is to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten. How to use discourage in a sentence.
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, hope, or confidence; dispirit. 2. to dissuade (usu. fol. by from ). 3. to obstruct by opposition or difficulty; hinder. 4. to express disapproval of; frown upon.
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.”
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 or course will probably fail: He was discouraged from going into business. To dismay is to dishearten completely: Her husband's philandering dismayed her.
