'Discouraged' definitions:
Definition of 'discouraged'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest" [syn: demoralized, demoralised, discouraged, disheartened]
adjective
Lacking in resolution; "the accident left others discouraged about going there"
Definition of 'Discouraged'
From: GCIDE
- Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discouraged; p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging.] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage.]
- 1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. [1913 Webster]
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. --Col. iii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
- Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. [1913 Webster]