| 单词 | discouraging |
| 释义 | discouraging (once / 1924 pages) adj WORD FAMILY discouraging: discouragingly+/discourage: discouraged, discouragement, discourages, discouraging/discouraged: discouragedly, undiscouraged/discouragement: discouragements USAGE EXAMPLESHis choice of the wildly unqualified Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is a discouraging early sign. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) “They will undoubtedly try to influence the upcoming elections by discouraging people who would most probably vote for the democratic parties from voting,” said Prouza. The Guardian(Dec 28, 2016) Q. Discouraging a wedding: I’ve been seeing a wonderful man for the past few years, and we’ve been discussing getting engaged and married soon. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action where never is heard a discouraging word Syn|Ant daunting, intimidating discouraging through fear demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening, dispiritingdestructive of morale and self-reliance frustratingdiscouraging by hindering unencouragingnot encouraging unhelpfulproviding no assistance hopelesswithout hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success dissuasivedeterring from action encouraging giving courage or confidence or hope reassuringrestoring confidence and relieving anxiety exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatorygiving strong encouragement heartening, inspiritingcheerfully encouraging promotivetending to further or encourage rallyingrousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort helpfulproviding assistance or serving a useful function hopefulhaving or manifesting hope 2adj expressing disapproval Syn dissuasive deterring from action |
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