discouraging

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkʌɹɪdʒɪŋ/

discouraging

1. present participle of discourage

discouraging

1. that causes discouragement
   • 1876, Brewster Higley (lyrics and music), “A Home on the Range”:

     Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day

• See also Thesaurus:disheartening

discouraging (plural discouragings)

1. discouragement
   • Lydia Ann Barclay

     But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings, and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles […]