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adjective
- 1. causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing: "a discouraging experience"
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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.
- English (US)
DISCOURAGE meaning: 1. to make someone feel less confident,...
- Portuguese Translation
discourage translate: desencorajar, desanimar, desencorajar,...
- Znaczenie Discourage, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
DISCOURAGE definicja: 1. to make someone feel less...
- Discourage in Spanish
DISCOURAGE translate: desanimar, disuadir, desalentar,...
- Discourage in Malay
DISCOURAGE translate: menawarkan, melemahkan semangat,...
- Discourage: German Translation
DISCOURAGE translate: entmutigen, verhindern, abhalten....
- English (US)
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.
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.
Discourage means to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit. It can also mean to dissuade, oppose, or express disapproval. See the origin, synonyms, antonyms, and example sentences of discourage.
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.”
Definition of discouraging adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
