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- Dictionarydiscouraged/dɪˈskʌrɪdʒd/
adjective
- 1. having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened: "he must be feeling pretty discouraged"
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The meaning of DISCOURAGE is to deprive of courage or confidence : dishearten. How to use discourage in a sentence.
adjective. uk / dɪˈskʌr.ɪdʒd / us / dɪˈskɝː.ɪdʒd /. Add to word list. having lost your confidence or enthusiasm for something: I think he felt discouraged because of all the criticism he'd received. Synonym. demoralized. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy.
to try to prevent something from happening or someone from doing something, or to have the effect of making something less likely: We tried to discourage him from spending so much money. Higher taxes could discourage business investment.
to prevent or try to prevent something happening or someone doing something, by making things difficult or unpleasant, or by showing disapproval: a campaign to discourage people from smok ing. The authorities have put tanks on the streets to discourage any protest. Opposite. encourage.
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.”.
Synonyms for DISCOURAGED: prohibited, forbidden, disallowed, outlawed, proscribed, barred, unauthorized, banned; Antonyms of DISCOURAGED: permitted, authorized, licensed, endorsed, approved, allowed, promoted, supported.
The adjective describes people who no longer feel that good things will happen, such as discouraged job-seekers, who despite sending hundreds of applications to prospective employers, never get any responses. They may have "lost the courage" to keep looking for work.
feeling less confident or enthusiastic about doing something synonym disheartened. Learners can feel very discouraged if an exercise is too difficult. Definition of discouraged adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dispirit. 2. to dissuade (usu. fol. by from). 3. to obstruct by opposition or difficulty; hinder. 4. to express disapproval of; frown upon.
