Synonyms for Discouraging

Synonyms for "discouraging" (77 found)

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Closest matches (16)

admonitory alarming awing black bleak cautionary chilling cold daunting

Adjective(6 words)

aversive barrier dampen demoralization demoralizing demotivate

Verb(1 words)

demoralize

Strong matches (23)

Related words (38)

Adjective(7 words)

dispiriting dissuade glummest unhopeful uninviting unpromising unsupportive

disquieting dissuading dissuasive down dreary expostulatoryfear inspiringfear-inspiring fearful fearsome forbidding forestalling frightening frightful gloomy hindering intimidating monitory oppressive overawing

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preclusive preventative preventive prohibitive prophylactic scaring scary startling untoward

Noun(2 words)

inhibitingnegative consequence

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

8 entries

barrierbehavioral actemotional stateevaluative adjectivefactor influencenegative descriptorpsychological phenomenon

More specific

9 entries

demoralization demoralizing demotivation disheartening disheartenment dispiriting dissuadingfinancial disincentiveregulatory barrier

Collocations

10 entries

discouraging datadiscouraging evidencediscouraging feedbackdiscouraging forecastdiscouraging outlookdiscouraging ratediscouraging resultsdiscouraging signalsdiscouraging signsdiscouraging trend

Inflections

5 entries

discouraged discourages discouragingsmore discouragingmost discouraging

Derivations

4 entries

discourage discouraged discouragement discouragingly

Antonyms

1 entries

encouraging

similar

11 entries

daunting demoralising demoralizing disheartening dispiriting dissuasive frustrating hopeless intimidating unencouraging unhelpful

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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It's discouraging that the travel expenses add up to 20,000 yen.

Source: tatoeba (1487460)

That's discouraging.

Source: tatoeba (2111448)

This is discouraging.

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Discouraging