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. Wade Fleming:

   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.

2. Andrea Taylor:

   There's a very real risk that what we're doing now is discouraging them from coming forward with the next one, because there will be a next one.

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. 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.

5. Ron DeSantis:

   If they have a residence and they’re not just kind of flying by night for a week or two, I’m totally fine with that, that’s a little bit different than somebody that’s just doing tourism and trying to come here. So we’re discouraging people to come to Florida just to get a vaccine.