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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective discouraging has 2 senses

• discouraging(a = adj.all) Array - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
Antonym: encouraging

• discouraging(s = adj.all) Array - expressing disapproval; Array

THESAURUS

discouraging

admonitory, alarming, awing, black, bleak, cautionary, chilling, daunting, depressant, depressing, depressive, deterrent, deterring, disconcerting, disheartening, disinclining, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, disquieting, dissuading, dissuasive, down, dreary, expostulatory, fear-inspiring, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, forestalling, frightening, frightful, hindering, intimidating, monitory, oppressive, overawing, preclusive, preventative, preventive, prohibitive, prophylactic, scaring, scary, startling

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