Synonyms for discouraging
dis·cour·ag·ing

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1. discouragingadjective

   depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

   "where never is heard a discouraging word"

   Antonyms:
   hortatory, exhortatory, promotive, hortative, inspiriting, heartening, persuasive, encouraging, rallying, exhortative

2. discouragingadjective

   expressing disapproval

   Antonyms:
   hortative, hortatory, exhortatory, rallying, exhortative, persuasive, inspiriting, promotive, encouraging, heartening

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1. discouragingadjective

   Synonyms:
   depressing, disheartening, dissuasive

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1. List of paraphrases for "discouraging":

   disheartening, disappointing, daunting, depressing, deterring, discouraged, frustrating, demotivating, dissuasive, detering, grim

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1. Wade Fleming:

   We are not discouraging people from spending time at Coquina Beach, we've met many people from Florida who said they've never heard of necrotizing fasciitis.

2. Konstantinos Filis:

   No one will admit it but it's a discouraging factor, a discouraging message for anyone who may want to come.

3. Mark Twain:

   It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

4. Winston Churchill:

   Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

5. Ron DeSantis:

   If they have a residence and they’re not just kind of flying by night for a week or two, I’m totally fine with that, that’s a little bit different than somebody that’s just doing tourism and trying to come here. So we’re discouraging people to come to Florida just to get a vaccine.