Usually means: Causing loss of confidence, disheartening.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word Discouraging:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. discouraging: Merriam-Webster
  2. discouraging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discouraging: Collins English Dictionary
  4. discouraging: Vocabulary.com
  5. Discouraging, discouraging: Wordnik
  6. discouraging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. discouraging: Wiktionary
  8. discouraging: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Discouraging, discouraging: Dictionary.com
  10. discouraging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Discouraging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. discouraging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. discouraging: Rhymezone
  14. discouraging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. discouraging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. discouraging: FreeDictionary.org
  17. discouraging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. discouraging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. discouraging: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (discouraging)

▸ adjective:  That causes discouragement.
▸ noun:  discouragement

Similar:
dissuasive, demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting, disheartening, daunting, frustrating, intimidating, unencouraging, disspiriting, more...

Opposite:
encouraging, inspiring, uplifting, motivating

Types:
disheartening, dismaying, distressing, appalling, grievous, heartbreaking, more...

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Similar:
dissuasive, demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting, disheartening, daunting, frustrating, intimidating, unencouraging, disspiriting, more...

Opposite:
encouraging, inspiring, uplifting, motivating

Types:
disheartening, dismaying, distressing, appalling, grievous, heartbreaking, more...

Colors:
    gray,     dark gray,     charcoal,     black,     navy blue, more...



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