Discouraged vs Encouraged - What's the difference?
discouraged | encouraged |
(encourage)
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As verbs the difference between discouraged and encouraged
is that discouraged is (discourage) while encouraged is (encourage).As an adjective discouraged
is having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.encouraged
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(head)encourage
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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
