All discouragement synonyms

noun discouragement

• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• pessimism — the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc.: His pessimism about the future of our country depresses me.
• hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
• dismay — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
• down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
• sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• disappointment — Cape, a cape in SW Washington state, projecting into the Pacific Ocean on the N of the mouth of the Columbia River.
• discomfiture — Archaic. defeat in battle; rout.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• bar — A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
• constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
• damper — A damper is a small sheet of metal in a fire, boiler, or furnace that can be moved to increase or reduce the amount of air that enters.
• setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
• obstacle — something that obstructs or hinders progress.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
• deterrent — A deterrent is something that prevents people from doing something by making them afraid of what will happen to them if they do it.
• rebuff — a blunt or abrupt rejection, as of a person making advances.
• disincentive — something that discourages or deters; deterrent: High interest rates and government regulations are disincentives to investment.
• cold feet — loss or lack of courage or confidence
• gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• dissuasion — an act or instance of dissuading.
• caution — Caution is great care which you take in order to avoid possible danger.
• warning — the act or utterance of one who warns or the existence, appearance, sound, etc., of a thing that warns.
• deterrence — Deterrence is the prevention of something, especially war or crime, by having something such as weapons or punishment to use as a threat.
• restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.