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Vexing vs Discouraging - What's the difference?

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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

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • vexation
  • * 2002 , Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950
  • Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings , were required to move her to this.

    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
  • Synonyms

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    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