- Types Of Speech
- You can use discouraging as a article or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Discouraging
- A 4 syllables article and 12 letters with the letters a, c, d, g, i, n, o, r, s, and u, 7 consonants, 5 vowels and 4 syllables with the middle letters ur. Discouraging starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters d, di, dis, disc, disco, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ging, aging, ..
- Definition
- Depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
- Pig Latin
- Discouraging in Pig Latin is said as "iscouragingday or iscouragingdway".
- Unigram
- d | i | s | c | o | u | r | a | g | i | n | g
- Bigram
- di | is | sc | co | ou | ur | ra | ag | gi | in | ng
- Trigram
- dis | isc | sco | cou | our | ura | rag | agi | gin | ing
- Quadrigram
- disc | isco | scou | cour | oura | urag | ragi | agin | ging
- Word Gram
- Article Examples
- depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action;
"where never is heard a discouraging word"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- expressing disapproval
Synonym | Definition |
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Admonishing | expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective |
Admonitory | expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective |
Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
Amazing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Appalling | an experience that appalls "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?" |
Atrocious | provoking horror "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
Awe Inspiring | |
Awesome | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
Awful | causing fear or dread or terror "the awful war" "an awful risk" "dire news" "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" "the dread presence of the headmaster" "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" "a dreadful storm" " |
Awing | inspiring awe or admiration or wonder "New York is an amazing city" "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight" "the awesome complexity of the universe" "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville "We |
View all cognitive synonyms for Discouraging
Antonym | Definition |
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Encouraging | tending to favor or bring good luck "miracles are auspicious accidents" "encouraging omens" "a favorable time to ask for a raise" "lucky stars" "a prosperous moment to make a decision" |
Anagram | Definition |
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Discouraging | depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action "where never is heard a discouraging word" |
View English words with the unique letters used in discouraging. Words With The Letters Acdginorsu
Similar Word | Definition |
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Daunting | discouraging through fear |
Demoralising | destructive of morale and self-reliance |
Demoralizing | destructive of morale and self-reliance |
Disheartening | destructive of morale and self-reliance |
Dispiriting | causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" |
Frustrating | discouraging by hindering |
Intimidating | discouraging through fear |
Unencouraging | not encouraging |
See Also | Definition |
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Dissuasive | deterring from action; "dissuasive advice"; "made a slight dissuasive gesture with her hand" |
Hopeless | (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic" |
Unhelpful | showing no willingness to cooperate; "an unhelpful attitude" |
Discouraging Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With G