discouragementdis‧cour‧age‧ment /dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒmənt $ -ˈkɜːr-/ noun - Despite early discouragements, she eventually became a successful songwriter.
- Our reaction to the court's decision is one of discouragement and disappointment.
- the country's discouragement of religion
- It is as if the entire party structure and philosophy had been geared towards the exclusion of participation and the discouragement of debate.
- Its cadres were decimated, whether through discouragement, capitulation, imprisonment, or outright murder.
- New ideas are often eroded by subtle discouragement rather than by explicit vetoes.
- Sandys was able to keep up emigration, but death and discouragement meant the population hardly rose above 1,000.
- Sometimes a sympathetic friend can be a constant source of discouragement, all unknowingly.
- Surely, the sanguine tone seemed out of place; maybe it was meant to mask deep discouragement.
- These things are not written under any feeling of discouragement, much less to discourage others.
- They are a kind of a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.
adjectiveencouraged ≠ discouragedencouraging ≠ discouragingnounencouragement ≠ discouragementverbencourage ≠ discourageadverbencouragingly ≠ discouragingly