Discouraging vs Grievous - What's the difference?
discouraging | grievous | Related terms |
that causes discouragement
* 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range
* Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
discouragement
* Lydia Ann Barclay
Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
* 1883 ,
Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.
Discouraging is a related term of grievous.
As adjectives the difference between discouraging and grievous
is that discouraging is that causes discouragement while grievous is causing grief, pain or sorrow.As a verb discouraging
is .As a noun discouraging
is discouragement.discouraging
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Verb
(head)Adjective
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* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings , and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles
grievous
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Alternative forms
* greuous (obsolete) * grievious (less common outside dialects)Adjective
(en adjective)- As for the captain, his wounds were grievous indeed but not dangerous.