Vexing vs Discouraging - What's the difference?
vexing | discouraging | Related terms |
vexation
* 2002 , Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950
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
Vexing is a related term of discouraging.
As verbs the difference between vexing and discouraging
is that vexing is while discouraging is .As nouns the difference between vexing and discouraging
is that vexing is vexation while discouraging is discouragement.As an adjective discouraging is
that causes discouragement.vexing
English
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(head)Noun
(en noun)- Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings , were required to move her to this.
discouraging
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* 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