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- Dictionarydiscouraging/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm; depressing: "a discouraging experience"
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The meaning of DISCOURAGE is to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten. How to use discourage in a sentence.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Definition of discourage verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
