What does Discouraging mean?
Definitions for Discouraging
dis·cour·ag·ing
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Discouraging.
Princeton's WordNet
discouragingadjective
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
"where never is heard a discouraging word"
discouragingadjective
expressing disapproval
Wiktionary
discouragingadjective
that causes discouragement
Webster Dictionary
Discouraging
of Discourage
Discouragingadjective
causing or indicating discouragement
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Discouraging in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Discouraging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Discouraging in a Sentence
There's a very real risk that what we're doing now is discouraging them from coming forward with the next one, because there will be a next one.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Some people are trying to score ideological points by discouraging the use of important equipment and tools that save lives and protect American first responders.
Families seem to provide a strong defense, perhaps the strongest, against becoming addicted in the first place, there’s not an easy, simple answer. We need pro-family policies, we need to identify policies that might be harming families or undermining them, that might be discouraging people from getting married or that punish them for doing so, or other policies that erode the family structure.
It's really discouraging to me to see this in my hometown.
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