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discouraged

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪsˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒd//
  • United States//dɪsˈkɝɪd͡ʒd//

Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.

    deeply discouraged

    easily discouraged

    feel discouraged

    She felt discouraged after several unsuccessful interviews.

  2. 2

    unrecommended; unprescribed.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of discouragesimple past and past participle of discourage

Forms

comparative
more discouraged
superlative
most discouraged
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).