Discouragements Synonyms and Antonyms

The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. despairs
  2. dismays
  3. melancholies
Antonyms:
  1. happinesses
  2. encouragements

Words Related to Discouragements

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Discouragements Sentence Examples

  • Amid many hardships and discouragements he persevered; and at the present day the native race is civilized and Christianized.

  • The industry was threatened with extinction, and would certainly have dwindled to insignificant dimensions had not a few earnest artists, working in the face of many difficulties and discouragements, succeeded in striking out new lines and establishing new standar4s for excellence.

  • His troops did not number more than 500 men; but, in spite of many discouragements, he forced his way to Merida and Truxillo, towns of some importance in the west of Venezuela, and succeeded in raising the population to his support.

  • It was in every way fitting, however, that he who had been the mainspring of the war from the beginning, and had borne far more than his share of its burdens and discouragements, should end it with the campaign of Yorktown, conceived by himself, and the surrender of Cornwallis (October 1781).

  • You have a dream, but you face so many discouragements along the way.