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    discouraging
    /dɪˈskʌrɪdʒɪŋ/

    adjective

    • 1. causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing: "a discouraging experience"

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishDISCOURAGING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    Discouraging means making you feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, synonyms, and translations in different languages.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › discourageDiscourage Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Discourage is a verb that means to deprive of courage or confidence, to hinder, or to dissuade. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for discourage.

  4. www.dictionary.com › browse › discourageDISCOURAGE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    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 dismay is to dishearten completely: Her husband's philandering dismayed her.

  5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryDISCOURAGE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    Learn the meaning of discourage, a verb that means to make someone feel less confident or to prevent something from happening. See how to use discourage in sentences and contrast it with encourage.

  6. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › discouragingDiscouraging - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    If something is discouraging, it makes you lose your hope or confidence. A discouraging grade in your science class might make you rethink your plans to become a marine biologist.

  7. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › discouragingdiscouraging adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and...

    Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective discouraging, which means making you feel less confident or enthusiastic about doing something. See synonyms, example sentences and grammar notes.

  8. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › discourageDiscourage - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    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.”.