Synonyms for discourage
dɪˈskɜr ɪdʒ, -ˈskʌr-dis·cour·age

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1. discourageverb

   Antonyms:
   encourage

2. discourageverb

   Antonyms:
   encourage

3. discourageverb

   Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can (Abraham Lincoln )

   Antonyms:
   encourage

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1. discourage

   Synonyms:
   baffle, confound, counteract, denounce, deter, disapprove, disconcert, dissuade, expose, frustrate, hinder, impede, obstruct

   Antonyms:
   abet, advocate, aid, assist, countenance, embolden, encourage, incite, instigate, promote, sanction, support, uphold

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1. deter, discourageverb

   try to prevent; show opposition to

   "We should discourage this practice among our youth"

   Synonyms:
   monish, admonish, warn, deter, dissuade

   Antonyms:
   encourage

2. discourageverb

   deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

   Synonyms:
   monish, warn, deter, admonish

   Antonyms:
   encourage

3. warn, discourage, admonish, monishverb

   admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior

   "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet"

   Synonyms:
   reprove, monish, admonish, warn, deter, caution

   Antonyms:
   encourage

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1. discourageverb

   Synonyms:
   dishearten, dispirit, depress, deject

2. discourageverb

   Synonyms:
   dissuade, deter, keep back

3. discourageverb

   Synonyms:
   disfavor, discountenance, throw cold water upon, put a damper on

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1. discourageverb

   Synonyms:
   dishearten, dispirit, depress, deter, dampen, unnerve, oppose, dissuade

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1. List of paraphrases for "discourage":

   deter, dissuade, deterring, dampen, prevent, demotivate

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How to use discourage in a sentence?

1. Plato:

   Never discourage anyone... who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

2. Calvin Coolidge:

   If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

3. Andy McKean:

   With the 2020 president election looming on the horizon, I feel as a Republican that I need to be able to support the standard bearer of our party. Unfortunately, that is not something I am able to do, he sets, in my opinion, a poor example for the nation and particularly for our children by personally insulting -- often in a crude and juvenile fashion -- those who disagree with him, being a bully at a time when we we are attempting to discourage bullying, his frequent disregard for the truth and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearance, ethnicity or disability.

4. William Ellery Channing:

   Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

5. Adam Cuker:

   If you give a vaccine to a large enough number of people, there are going to be rare adverse events but there are also going to be coincidental events unrelated to the vaccine, if an anti-vaccine group uses a single case, where no link has been proven, to discourage people from vaccination, that's terrible.