Discourage

What do we mean by discourage?

To deprive of confidence, hope, or spirit. transitive verb

To dissuade or deter (someone) from doing something. transitive verb

To try to prevent by expressing disapproval or raising objections. transitive verb

Want of courage, cowardice. noun

To deprive of, or cause to lose, courage; dishearten; depress in spirit; deject; dispirit.

To lessen or repress courage for; obstruct by opposition or difficulty; dissuade or hinder from: as, to discourage emigration; ill success discourages effort; low prices discourage industry.

To lose courage.

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage transitive verb

To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from. transitive verb

Lack of courage; cowardliness. noun

To take away or reduce the courage of. verb

To persuade somebody not to do something. verb

Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior verb

Try to prevent; show opposition to verb

Deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged verb

Lack of courage

To tend to prevent something from happening by making it more difficult or unpleasant; to try to stop somebody from doing something Urban Dictionary

To enforce a student to suffer the consequences of being enrolled in a calculus-related course. Urban Dictionary

Having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened. Urban Dictionary

In economics, discouraged workers is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who does not find employment after long-term unemployment. This is usually because an individual has given up looking or has had no success in finding a job, hence the term "discouraged". A discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects. Urban Dictionary

You think you are perfect. You may be ready to overindulge yourself in one way or another. You may be an ultra perfectionist and you get frustrated when things don’t go your way. You may become very impatient with, or intolerant of, people who don’t measure up to your standards. You may be very structured, with high expectations for yourself and others. You may agonize over the problems of others and want to move in, take over, and solve everything. You are afraid of losing others and will do anything to keep them in your life. Urban Dictionary

The opposite of confident, which is not the same as unhappy. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to discourage:
discourage, discourse, scourage, discouraged, discoure, discourager, discourages, disencourage.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word discourage:
prohibit, encourage, predators, smoking, theft, consumption, pursuing, speculation, drinking, tobacco, buying, alcohol, attempting, illegal, voting, entering, consumers, immigration, pursuit, reporting, behavior, behaviour, seeking, usage, tax, attacking, investment, practices, abuse, drugs.

Words that rhyme with discourage:
encourage, courage, stirrage, dutch courage.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective discourage:
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Words that sound like discourage:
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