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discouragingly adverb uk /dɪˈskʌr.ɪ.dʒɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈskɝː.ɪ.dʒɪŋ.li/ in a way that makes you feel less confident, enthusiastic, and positive about something, or less willing to do something: The cost of the tickets was discouragingly high. She was gesturing and shaking her head discouragingly. Discouragingly little progress has been made since the project started. Of course, there are exceptions to this, but they are discouragingly rare. A discouragingly large percentage of the sector would be exposed to financial difficulty. It was a discouragingly bitter experience. 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 disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom spoke take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom throw cold water on somethingidiom unencouraging
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