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unencouraging
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˈkʌr.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˈkɝː.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/
not giving you more confidence or hope:
Children from families with unencouraging parents often lack confidence in school.
This way of recycling bottles has been tried before, with unencouraging results.
For some reason, his manner suddenly became unencouraging.
She gave him a very unencouraging look.
The results of the experiment were unencouraging.
Trade prospects between the two countries are still unencouraging.
I'd been waiting for his response, and when he arrived, his face was unencouraging.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Discouraging and putting off
aversive
dampen someone's enthusiasm
dampen someone's spirits
dampener on something
daunt
deter
deterrence
deterrent
discourage
discouragement
dishearten
disheartening
dishearteningly
disincentive
emasculate
emasculation
spoil someone's partyidiom
spoke
take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom
throw cold water on somethingidiom
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discouraging uninspiring Oppositeencouraging
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