Antonyms for discourageddis·cour·aged

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1. demoralized, demoralised, discouraged, disheartenedadjective

   made less hopeful or enthusiastic

   "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"

   Antonyms:
   resolute, optimistic

   Synonyms:
   demoralized, demoralised, disheartened

2. discouragedadjective

   lacking in resolution

   "the accident left others discouraged about going there"

   Antonyms:
   optimistic, resolute

   Synonyms:
   demoralized, demoralised, disheartened

How to use discouraged in a sentence?

1. Goa Kerle:

   Don 't be discouraged because it is difficult, be encouraged because it is possible. Consider how bad you want it, not how difficult it is

2. King III:

   Discouraged ? I don't think he ever would embrace the energy of discouraged. Disappointed ? Greatly, tremendously disappointed, he never gave in and gave out, but disappointment ? Yes. He would be greatly disappointed and say that America can, must and will do better. He would never have accepted what we're going through at this point.

3. C. C. Colton:

   Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.

4. John Keats:

   Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

5. Mandela Barnes:

   Democratic Senate is so broken, but I refuse to be discouraged, let Build Back Better be clear, this moment is bigger than one senator or one piece of legislation. Build Back Better's Build Back Better today, but tomorrow it could be legislation to expand voting rights, to stop climate change, or to permanently make Roe v. Wade law of the land.

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