discouraging
Adjective
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Depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action (synset 300870521)
"where never is heard a discouraging word"also:
- unhelpful - providing no assistance
- hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
- dissuasive - deterring from action
similar to:- daunting, intimidating - discouraging through fear
- demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting - destructive of morale and self-reliance
- frustrating - discouraging by hindering
- unencouraging - not encouraging
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Expressing disapproval in order to dissuade (synset 301775905)
similar to: dissuasive - deterring from action
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