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. Lyndon Johnson of Texas:

   The one that is most discouraging to me is Leader McConnell, the Bob Byrds of the world have to be turning over in their grave, the way this is being handled by Tom Daschle.

2. E. B. White:

   Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

3. Mike Lee:

   Families seem to provide a strong defense, perhaps the strongest, against becoming addicted in the first place, there’s not an easy, simple answer. We need pro-family policies, we need to identify policies that might be harming families or undermining them, that might be discouraging people from getting married or that punish them for doing so, or other policies that erode the family structure.

4. Patricia Leary Steuer:

   It is a discouraging message to sexual assault survivors, i hope it won't, because in the end all you can do is come forward and tell the truth.

5. Sean Feucht:

   In response to the ban on singing, I believe, either one, its hypocrisy, because the state officials are largely encouraging protests, and Im not discouraging them.