- Types Of Speech
- You can use discourage as a verb in a sentence.
- About Discourage
- A 3 syllables verb and 10 letters with the letters a, c, d, e, g, i, o, r, s, and u, 5 consonants, 5 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letters ou. Discourage starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel with the starting letters d, di, dis, disc, disco, and the ending characters are e, ge, age, rage, urage, ..
- Definition
- Admonish or counsel in terms of someone''s behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet"
- Origin/Roots
- Middle French
- Compound Words
- A compound word, discourage has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are dis, and courage.
- School Grade
- Discourage is set as a grade seven word that starts with d, ends with e, 3 syllables, 5 vowels and 10 letters.
- Pig Latin
- Discourage in Pig Latin is said as "iscourageday or iscouragedway".
- Unigram
- d | i | s | c | o | u | r | a | g | e
- Bigram
- di | is | sc | co | ou | ur | ra | ag | ge
- Trigram
- dis | isc | sco | cou | our | ura | rag | age
- Quadrigram
- disc | isco | scou | cour | oura | urag | rage
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior;
"I warned him not to go too far";
"I warn you against false assumptions";
"She warned him to be quiet" - try to prevent;
show opposition to;
"We should discourage this practice among our youth" - deprive of courage or hope;
take away hope from;
cause to feel discouraged
Synonym | Definition |
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Afflict | cause bodily suffering to |
Affright | cause fear in "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" |
Aid | the work of caring for or attending to someone or something "no medical care was required" "the old car needed constant attention" |
Ail | aromatic bulb used as seasoning |
Alarm | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
Alien | a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere |
Alienate | arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness |
Amaze | be a mystery or bewildering to "This beats me!" "Got me--I don''t know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" |
Annoyance | the act of troubling or annoying someone |
Anticipate | be a forerunner of or occur earlier than "This composition anticipates Impressionism" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Discourage
Anagram | Definition |
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Discourage | admonish or counsel in terms of someone''s behavior "I warned him not to go too far" "I warn you against false assumptions" "She warned him to be quiet" |
View English words with the unique letters used in discourage. Words With The Letters Acdegiorsu
Word | Definition |
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Admonisher | someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided |
Admonition | cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger) |
Monition | a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted |
Monitor | any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia fabled to warn of crocodiles |
Reminder | an experience that causes you to remember something |
Warning | cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger) |
Word Of Advice |
Discourage Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With D
- Ends With E
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
Filtering/Finder Tools
Found In These Quantum Lists!
- starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel
- 10 letters, 5 consonants, 5 vowels, 3 syllables
- 10 letters, 5 vowels, and 3 syllables
- 5 consonants, 5 vowels, 3 syllables
- 5 consonants and 3 syllables
- 5 consonants and 5 vowels
- 5 vowels and 3 syllables
- Words With All Vowels (aeiou)
- Words with Middle French roots.