Discourage vs Encourage - What's the difference?
discourage | encourage | Antonyms |
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
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
Encourage is a antonym of discourage.
As verbs the difference between discourage and encourage
is that discourage is to extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject while encourage is to mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.As a noun discourage
is {{cx|rare|lang=en}} Lack of courage.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.
Antonyms
* encourageSee also
* deter * dissuadeNoun
(-)Synonyms
* (lack of courage) cowardlinessExternal links
*encourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed