Discouraging Synonyms and Antonyms

diskʉrijiŋ
Deter, dissuade; restrain
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. deterring
  2. repressing
  3. controlling
  4. curbing
  5. inhibiting
  6. diverting
  7. withholding
  8. dissuading
  9. quieting
  10. checking
  11. hindering
  12. impeding
  13. obstructing
Antonyms:
  1. inspiring
  2. facilitating
  3. expediting
  4. helping
  5. encouraging
Suggesting an unwelcome future
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. inopportune
  2. disadvantageous
  3. dissuading
Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. warning
  2. admonishing
  3. alarming
  4. dissuading

Words Related to Discouraging

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Discouraging Sentence Examples

  • No other state has given so vigorous a test of the ordinary American general-property tax, and the results have been as discouraging as elsewhere.

  • Being possessive of you and discouraging you from making other friends.

  • But there was another movement, whose origins went back for many centuries, which they were far from discouraging, and were prepared to utilize when it suited their convenience.

  • The system was revised in the 1830s because it was viewed as discouraging work by interfering with the laws of supply and demand relating to labor.

  • In these pagan regions the Sudan government encouraged the work of missionary societies; both Protestant and Roman Catholic, while discouraging propaganda work among the Moslems.

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