[
US
/dɪˈskɝədʒɪŋ, dɪˈskɝɪdʒɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dɪskˈʌɹɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dɪskˈʌɹɪdʒɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
where never is heard a discouraging word - expressing disapproval in order to dissuade
How To Use discouraging In A Sentence
- Many hospitals deliberately tried to avoid challenging or openly discouraging the parents' hopes and expectations for a perfect or near-perfect recovery.
- Now environmentalists are discouraging the use of disposables.
- However, efforts in the past year to stimulate angiogenesis in patients have been discouraging. The Scientist
- The levy of 30% on cattle exported on the hoof, on the other hand, is aimed at discouraging the export of live animals from the country.
- For seamen, special patterns of musket were introduced and the musketoon, or blunderbuss, became a shipboard weapon useful for discouraging both boarders and putative mutineers.
- Three pairs of US army shades turned on me, and a couple of American guns waggled discouragingly in my direction.
- Sexual discrimination is seen to be an important factor in discouraging women from careers in engineering.
- Despite the discouraging times, activists continue to struggle on many fronts.
- Most of the adjustments pastors have made to lessen the discouraging effect of sluggish attendance figures are internal. Christianity Today
- Our imagination can be either helpful or discouraging when it begins to anticipate a course of action.
