Crossword clues for discouraging
discouraging
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discouraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging.] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]
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To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
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To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor.
Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
that causes discouragement n. discouragement v
(present participle of discourage English)
WordNet
adj. depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word" [ant: encouraging]
expressing disapproval
Usage examples of "discouraging".
The human race has got to be more than discouraging to work with, Roxanna Slade included.
By then I knew that, whatever came, nothing would prove to be more discouraging than turning my back on a maybe last chance.
I know when the boy got to Seldom is heard a discouraging word, I clamped my eyes shut in hopes of flushing out one tear at least to ease the swarming weight of my mind.
Till that final night, December 25th of 1945, I'd never been a victim of discouraging pictures and horror stories.
I tried to hush her with discouraging looks, but she wouldn't be stopped.
But today the environment is discouraging, so much so that the very hallmark of transition people and transition families today is inner courage.
It takes tremendous personal and also family courage today to create an encouraging and nurturing home environment in the midst of the wider, discouraging environment of society.
You can weave a strong and secure safety net of encouraging circumstances in the home so that family members can cultivate those kinds of internal resiliencies and strengths that will enable them to deal with the discouraging, anti-family circumstances outside.
And yet there is a pathos in "dried things," whether they are displayed as ornaments in some secluded home, or hidden religiously in bureau drawers where profane eyes cannot see how white ties are growing yellow and ink is fading from treasured letters, amid a faint and discouraging perfume of ancient rose-leaves.
The most discouraging symptom to me in our undoubted advance in the comforts and refinements of society is the facility with which men slip back into barbarism, if the artificial and external accidents of their lives are changed.
I had been blessed with a good digestion and a talent for sleeping under the most discouraging circumstances.
Under these discouraging circumstances, home-loving, kindly-hearted men, especially those who had passed out of the first flush of youth, and had left wife and children behind when they entered the service, were speedily overcome with despair of surviving until released.
It was discouraging to be able to see nothing, no lights, no sign of progress.
After she complained about pestiferous strangers, her king issued an edict, which was enforced with discouraging sternness.
They can undercut our fledgling businesses, put pressure on those who'd help us with financing, and flood the world with disparaging, discouraging propaganda.