discouraging

discouraging
    adj 1: depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence
           often deterring action; "where never is heard a
           discouraging word" [ant: {encouraging}]
    2: expressing disapproval
    

Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Discouraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discouraging}.] [Pref. dis- +
   courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des-
   (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See {Courage}.]
   1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress
      the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --
      the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his
      undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like
      attempt.
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            Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
            they be discouraged.                  --Col. iii.
                                                  21.
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   2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to
      seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they
      discouraged his efforts.

   Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade;
        disfavor.
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Discouraging \Dis*cour"a*ging\, a.
   Causing or indicating discouragement. --
   {Dis*cour"a*ging*ly}, adv.
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45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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