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discouragingverbpresent participle of discourage to lessen the courage or confidence ofI didn't let losing discourage me from trying again chilling, daunting, demoralizing, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, frustrating, unmanning, unnerving browbeating, bullying, cowing, intimidatingdepressing, saddening, weighingafflicting, tryingdampening, damping, deadeningdistressing, troublingbothering, irking, vexing, worryingdebilitating, enfeebling, undermining, weakeningfrightening, horrifying, scaring throwing cold water on emboldening, encouraging, heartening, nerving, steeling buoying (up), cheering, gladdeninganimating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, inspiring, lifting, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring to steer (a person) from an activity or course of actionthe higher fines may help discourage drivers from speeding on the highway deterring, dissuading, inhibiting divertingunsellingrepelling encouraging, persuading egging (on), exhorting, goading, prodding, urgingimpelling, inducing, prompting |