Discourage vs Disheartening - What's the difference?
discourage | disheartening |
To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
* Bible, Col. iii. 21
To persuade somebody not to do something.
* Abraham Lincoln
Lack of courage
As verbs the difference between discourage and disheartening
is that discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject while disheartening is present participle of lang=en.As a noun discourage
is {{cx|rare|lang=en}} Lack of courage.As an adjective disheartening is
causing to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy; scare; discourage.discourage
English
Verb
(discourag)- Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
- Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.