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Discouraged vs Deprecated - What's the difference?

discouraged | deprecated |

As adjectives the difference between discouraged and deprecated

is that discouraged is having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened while deprecated is strongly disapproved of.

As verbs the difference between discouraged and deprecated

is that discouraged is past tense of discourage while deprecated is past tense of deprecate.

discouraged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (discourage)

    • deprecated

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deprecate)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Strongly disapproved of.
  • *
  • Belittled; insulted
  • (computing) Obsolescent]]; said of a construct in a computing language considered old, and planned to be [[phase out, phased out, but still available for use.
  • * 2002 , Steven E. Callihan, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example
    • Just because an element or attribute is deprecated doesn't mean that it can't be used on a webpage.
  • * 1999 . Raggett, Dave, et. al. HTML 4.01 Specification , Conformance: requirements and recommendations. W3C
    • A deprecated element or attribute is one that has been outdated by newer constructs.
    Note that deprecated functions are not removed.

    Related terms

    * deprecation