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Daunting vs Disheartening - What's the difference?

daunting | disheartening |

As verbs the difference between daunting and disheartening

is that daunting is present participle of lang=en while disheartening is present participle of lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between daunting and disheartening

is that daunting is discouraging, inspiring fear while disheartening is causing to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy; scare; discourage.

daunting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • discouraging, inspiring fear
  • overwhelming, intimidatingly impressive

    • Related terms

    * dauntingly * dauntless

    disheartening

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy; scare; discourage.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (head)
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs