Usually means: Causing loss of confidence, disheartening.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. discouraging: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  17. discouraging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. discouraging: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

(Note: See discourage as well.)

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adjective:  That causes discouragement.
noun:  discouragement

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