DISCOURAGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does discouraged mean? 

• DISCOURAGED (adjective)
  The adjective DISCOURAGED has 2 senses:

1. made less hopeful or enthusiastic

2. lacking in resolution

  Familiarity information: DISCOURAGED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISCOURAGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made less hopeful or enthusiastic

Synonyms:

demoralised; demoralized; discouraged; disheartened

Context example:

the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest

Similar:

pessimistic (expecting the worst possible outcome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lacking in resolution

Context example:

the accident left others discouraged about going there

Similar:

irresolute (uncertain how to act or proceed)

 Context examples 

The little girls undertook it, but they are discouraged.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Alarmed, but not discouraged, she tried it another way; a bolt flew, and she believed herself successful; but how strangely mysterious!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient seem very discouraged or say that he/she has no future?

(NPI - Seem Very Discouraged, NCI Thesaurus)

The usage of this unit is discouraged in favor of the katal by International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine due to lack of its coherence with the SI system.

(Enzyme Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Used to indicate something that is tolerated or supported but not recommended (discouraged) and that may be in the process of being phased out; obsolescent.

(Deprecated, NCI Thesaurus)

"I told you it was hopeless, Matt," Scott said in a discouraged voice.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I am therefore by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

However, substances containing N-glycosidic bonds, where the anomeric carbon is bound to some other group via a nitrogen atom, are called glycosylamines; the term N-glycoside is considered a misnomer by IUPAC and is discouraged.

(Glycoside, NCI Thesaurus)

By all which, instead of being discouraged, they are fifty times more violently bent upon prosecuting their schemes, driven equally on by hope and despair: that as for himself, being not of an enterprising spirit, he was content to go on in the old forms, to live in the houses his ancestors had built, and act as they did, in every part of life, without innovation: that some few other persons of quality and gentry had done the same, but were looked on with an eye of contempt and ill-will, as enemies to art, ignorant, and ill common-wealth’s men, preferring their own ease and sloth before the general improvement of their country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After severely comparing one with another, and making entries on the tablets, and blotting them out, and counting all the fingers of her left hand over and over again, backwards and forwards, she would be so vexed and discouraged, and would look so unhappy, that it gave me pain to see her bright face clouded—and for me!—and I would go softly to her, and say: What's the matter, Dora?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)