What are some opposite words for discouraging?
Antonyms for discouragingdis·cour·ag·ing
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term discouraging.
Princeton's WordNet
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, exhortativediscouragingadjective
expressing disapproval
Antonyms:
hortative, hortatory, exhortatory, rallying, exhortative, persuasive, inspiriting, promotive, encouraging, heartening
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
discouragingadjective
Synonyms:
depressing, disheartening, dissuasive
Editors Contribution
aspirationaladjective
if someone describes something as aspirational, they are saying it is meant to encourage.
etsy describes their star seller program as aspirational, however, sellers describe the program as discouraging.
Submitted by adam.boarman on February 24, 2022
How to use discouraging in a sentence?
It's bittersweet, it's discouraging because we told them all the reasons why they shouldn't renovate Soldier Field 20 years ago. They didn't listen to us. And now, they're not happy with the things we told them were deficient in the Soldier Field plan.
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.
It's really discouraging to me to see this in my hometown.
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.
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.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#7874 | encouraging | |
#21552 | persuasive | |
#33012 | rallying | |
#36836 | discouraging | |
#74503 | heartening | |
#286420 | promotive |
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