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. Ariana Denebeim:

   Looking for jobs... was very brutal, there was nothing available, especially in the industries I was interested in... it was so discouraging.

2. Finance Minister Taro Aso:

   As a result, it should encourage Japan-bound investment rather than discouraging it.

3. Joseph Vavra:

   My guess is the $ 300 is having some discouraging effect on people working, but that it's not a gigantic effect. But I have a lot of uncertainty because I just don't think we have good data.

4. Scott Phillips:

   While sensible on the face of it, these changes carry a very real risk of discouraging much needed, national interest investment as Australia heads into our first recession in 29 years.

5. 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.