Usually means: Feeling disheartened and lacking motivation.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word discouraged:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. discouraged: Merriam-Webster
  2. discouraged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discouraged: Collins English Dictionary
  4. discouraged: Vocabulary.com
  5. Discouraged, discouraged: Wordnik
  6. discouraged: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. discouraged: Wiktionary
  8. Discouraged, discouraged: Dictionary.com
  9. discouraged: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Discouraged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. discouraged: Rhymezone
  12. Discouraged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. discouraged: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. discouraged: FreeDictionary.org
  15. discouraged: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. discouraged: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. discouraged: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discouraged: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discouraged: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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▸ adjective:  Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.
▸ adjective:  unrecommended; unprescribed.

Similar:
disheartened, frustrated, baffled, pessimistic, defeated, irresolute, balk, demoralized, despondent, downhearted, more...

Opposite:
encouraged, motivated, inspired, uplifted, heartened

Types:
sad, unhappy, pessimistic, doubtful, skeptical, negative, cynical, more...

Phrases:
Discouraged worker, Discouraged Ones, not discouraged, easily discouraged, being sad or discouraged, more...

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Similar:
disheartened, frustrated, baffled, pessimistic, defeated, irresolute, balk, demoralized, despondent, downhearted, more...

Opposite:
encouraged, motivated, inspired, uplifted, heartened

Types:
sad, unhappy, pessimistic, doubtful, skeptical, negative, cynical, more...

Phrases:
Discouraged worker, Discouraged Ones, not discouraged, easily discouraged, being sad or discouraged, be discouraged, strongly discouraged, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dark gray,     charcoal,     taupe,     mauve, more...



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