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All discouraged synonyms

dis·cour·age
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adj discouraged

  • disheartened — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
  • depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
  • pessimistic — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • crestfallen — If you look crestfallen, you look sad and disappointed about something.
  • dismayed — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
  • blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
  • down — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
  • dispirited — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
  • beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
  • dashed — made up of dashes: a dashed line down the middle of the road.
  • deterred — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
  • daunted — intimidated
  • downbeat — the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure.
  • downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
  • glum — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
  • sad — Systems Analysis Definition
  • beat-down — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
  • in the dumps — a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.

adjective discouraged

  • dejected — If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
  • low — to utter by or as by lowing.
  • melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
  • hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
  • gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
  • unenthusiastic — full of or characterized by enthusiasm; ardent: He seems very enthusiastic about his role in the play.
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