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Trying vs Discouraging - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between trying and discouraging

is that trying is difficult to endure; arduous while discouraging is that causes discouragement.

As verbs the difference between trying and discouraging

is that trying is present participle of lang=en while discouraging is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between trying and discouraging

is that trying is the act by which one tries something; an attempt while discouraging is discouragement.

trying

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Difficult to endure; arduous.
  • *1891 , Conan Doyle,
  • *:"Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a little trying to do so much typewriting?"
  • Irritating, stressful or bothersome.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (philosophy) The act by which one tries something; an attempt.
  • * 2006 , Andrew Sneddon, Action and Responsibility (page 145)
    • In a variety of places, O'Shaughnessy argues that there is an internal relation between trying and the events that tryings produce. For example, he argues that tryings are not independently specifiable except as would-be causes of physical events.

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    discouraging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • 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

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    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • discouragement
  • * Lydia Ann Barclay
    • 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