Synonyms for discouraged
dis·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"

   Synonyms:
   demoralized, demoralised, disheartened

   Antonyms:
   resolute, optimistic

2. discouragedadjective

   lacking in resolution

   "the accident left others discouraged about going there"

   Synonyms:
   demoralized, demoralised, disheartened

   Antonyms:
   optimistic, resolute

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1. List of paraphrases for "discouraged":

   deterred, disheartened, dispirited, discouraging, despondent

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1. Chuck Pelitera:

   If you’re forcing them to monitor their progress every time and keep track of what they’ve been doing in their workouts, they’re going to get discouraged and not do it, we just want to get them to do something and not monitor so much what it is.

2. Dori Steinberg:

   Since keeping track of your diet can be hard, we discouraged participants from tracking diet in this study, instead we asked them to focus on just weighing daily to monitor progress as a way of determining whether their diet and exercise habits were working.

3. Queen Victoria:

   None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.

4. 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.

5. Konstantinos Farsalinos:

   Unfortunately, the end result is that smokers are discouraged from using e-cigarettes as an alternative to smoking, for those smokers who can not switch with, or do not want to use the pharmaceutical medications, e-cigarettes can really be life-saving.