Usually means: Deter or dissuade from action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. discourage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. discourage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. discourage: Collins English Dictionary
  4. discourage: Vocabulary.com
  5. Discourage, discourage: Wordnik
  6. discourage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. discourage: Wiktionary
  8. discourage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. discourage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. discourage: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Discourage, discourage: Dictionary.com
  12. discourage: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. discourage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Discourage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Discourage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. discourage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. discourage: Rhymezone
  18. discourage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. discourage: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. discourage: FreeDictionary.org
  21. discourage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. discourage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. discourage: Merriam-Webster
  24. discourage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discourage: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discourage: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).
▸ noun:  (rare) Lack of courage

Similar:
deter, admonish, warn, dishearten, discomfort, dispirit, deject, disheart, demoralize, dehort, more...

Opposite:
encourage, embolden, hearten

Types:
discouraging, discouragement, more...

Phrases:
discourage from proceeding, opposite of discourage, discourage someone from doing something, discourage from acting, to discourage, more...

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    gray,     black,     dark blue,     brown,     olive, more...


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Similar:
deter, admonish, warn, dishearten, discomfort, dispirit, deject, disheart, demoralize, dehort, more...

Opposite:
encourage, embolden, hearten

Types:
discouraging, discouragement, more...

Phrases:
discourage from proceeding, opposite of discourage, discourage someone from doing something, discourage from acting, to discourage, not discourage, highly discourage something in someone, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     dark blue,     brown,     olive, more...



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