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Discouraging   /dɪskˈərədʒɪŋ/  /dɪskˈərɪdʒɪŋ/   Listen
Discouraging

adjective
1.
Depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action.
2.
Expressing disapproval.


Discourage

verb
(past & past part. discouraged; pres. part. discouraging)
1.
Try to prevent; show opposition to.  Synonym: deter.
2.
Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged.
3.
Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior.  Synonyms: admonish, monish, warn.  "I warn you against false assumptions" , "She warned him to be quiet"



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"Discouraging" Quotes from Famous Books



... wealth and preserves it, but war both expends it and destroys it. [Footnote: The first eight sections of this fragment seem to be taken from speeches of Romans in the senate-house. Nos. 1 and 2 are apparently the words of an unknown individual discouraging the eagerness for war; Nos. 3 and 4 may be spoken by Lentulus, urging war; and Nos. 5 to 8 may contain the opposing arguments of Fabius.](Mai, ...
— Dio's Rome, Vol VI. • Cassius Dio
... and "silly" sex had been characterized by perhaps more vigilant scorn and disparagement than was necessary. Cressy had accepted it as she had accepted her new studies, with an indolent good-humor, and at times a frankly supreme ignorance of their abstract or moral purpose that was discouraging. "What's the good of that?" she would ask, lifting her eyes abruptly to the master. Mr. Ford, somewhat embarrassed by her look, which always, sooner or later, frankly confessed itself an excuse for a perfectly irrelevant examination of his features in detail, would end in giving ...
— Cressy • Bret Harte
... German Government began its policy of discouraging American business in Germany. Ambassador Gerard had had a long wrangle with the Chancellor over a bill which was introduced in the Reichstag shortly after the beginning of the war to purchase all foreign oil properties "within the German Customs Union." The bill was examined by ...
— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman
... Those were discouraging times in American literature, but Poe never lost faith. He was finally to triumph wherever pre-eminent talents win admirers. His genius has had no better description than in this stanza from William Winter's poem, read at the ...
— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe
... if I were on some great exploring expedition," exclaimed Sahwah. "Everything looks so new and undiscovered. I wish there was something left to discover," she continued plaintively. "It's so discouraging to think that there's nothing more for explorers to do in this country. What fun it must have been for La Salle and Pere Marquette and Lewis and Clark to find those big rivers that no white man had ever seen before, and go poking about in the wilderness. That was the ...
— The Campfire Girls at Camp Keewaydin • Hildegard G. Frey


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