Word Meanings - DISCOURAGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISCOURAGING)

• Formidable
• Awful
• terrible
• alarming
• terrifying
• discouraging
• serious
• appalling
• fearful
• dreadful
• horrible
• shocking

Related words: (words related to DISCOURAGING)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• APPALL
  1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• ALARMABLE
  Easily alarmed or disturbed.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• ALARMIST
  One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.
• FEARFUL
  1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
• TERRIBLE
  1. Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable. Prudent in peace, and terrible in war. Prior. Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. Deut. vii. 21.
• ALARMED
  Aroused to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.
• DISCOURAGER
  One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.
• HORRIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.
• FORMIDABLE
  Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. They seemed to fear the formodable sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when
• UNAPPALLED
  Not appalled; not frightened; dauntless; undaunted. Milton.
• INFORMIDABLE
  Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
• UNLAWFUL
  Not lawful; contrary to law. -- Un*law"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*law"ful*ness, n. Unlawful assembly. See under Assembly.
• ABHORRIBLE
  Detestable.