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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Definition of 'discouraging' Word Frequency. discouraging in British English. (dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋ ) adjective. causing a loss of confidence and determination. Today's report is rather more discouraging for the economy. a discouraging set of results for the country's leading automobile manufacturer. Collins English Dictionary.
Definition of discouraging adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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.
