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Discourage vs Disparage - What's the difference?

discourage | disparage |

As verbs the difference between discourage and disparage

is that discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject while disparage is to match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.

As nouns the difference between discourage and disparage

is that discourage is lack of courage while disparage is (obsolete) inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.

discourage

English

Verb

(discourag)
  • To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.
  • Don't be discouraged by the amount of work left to do: you'll finish it in good time.
  • * Bible, Col. iii. 21
  • Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged .
  • To persuade somebody not to do something.
  • * Abraham Lincoln
  • Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

    Antonyms

    * encourage

    See also

    * deter * dissuade

    Noun

    (-)
  • Lack of courage
  • Synonyms

    * (lack of courage) cowardliness

    disparage

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Inequality in marriage; marriage with an inferior.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:
  • But, for his meane degree might not aspire / To match so high, her friends with counsell sage / Dissuaded her from such a disparage […].

    Verb

    (disparag)
  • To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
  • To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
  • * Bishop Atterbury
  • those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
  • * Milton
  • Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
  • To ridicule, mock, discredit.
  • See also

    * vilipend * belittle * denigrate * excoriate