What are the antonyms for DISCOURAGE?
- inspire, commend, calm, encourage, strengthen, egg, buoy, hearten, forward, advance, lift, inspirit, comfort, praise, invigorate, support, stimulate, make happy, please, permit, gladden, galvanize, goad, assist, energize, prod, impel, rally, steel, enforce, assure, approve, allow, exhort, laud, nerve, animate, prompt, soothe, excite, induce, uplift, reassure, boost, stir, compliment, reinforce, facilitate, cheer, spur on, quicken, help, enliven, aid, let go, provoke, fortify.
Synonyms for DISCOURAGE
- sandbagging,
- make one's hair stand on end,
- held over,
- leading astray,
- unglues,
- not hear of,
- overawes,
- cramp style,
- Indisposing,
- poke full of holes,
- keep back,
- frown,
- downcry,
- rein in,
- disappoint,
- Paused,
- Disadvise,
- scarify,
- dispraise,
- cancel,
- invite,
- take down a peg,
- take apart,
- irk,
- playing for time,
- Buffaloes,
- held in,
- bring one down,
- DAMPS,
- slackens,
- reprieve,
- control,
- plays for time,
- disburb,
- stop,
- chill to the bone,
- freeze,
- defeat,
- puncture,
- obstruct,
- cry down,
- scupper,
- shut out,
- Harnessing,
- mystify,
- keep at a distance,
- Dispraised,
- hold back,
- make teeth chatter,
- cast a shadow over something,
- scared to death,
- keeps back,
- kept under,
- keep arm's length,
- prorogues,
- keep at arm's length,
- held down,
- Tabooing,
- Overawing,
- dampen spirits,
- get around,
- inhibits,
- Discommend,
- Downs,
- caution against,
- Forfend,
- Intermitted,
- bide time,
- object to,
- render null and void,
- lash out at,
- sandbagged,
- up set,
- unglued,
- mystified,
- Remanded,
- getting around,
- holds back,
- impede,
- frustrate,
- kept back,
- downed,
- bully,
- holding in,
- hold off,
- muck up,
- passed up,
- lead astray,
- make one's blood run cold,
- put into a funk,
- ban,
- kept at bay,
- ungluing,
- psyched out,
- disfavor,
- preempt,
- kept out,
- psych out,
- fight,
- under-estimates,
- maligned,
- neutralize,
- deflate,
- stiffs,
- bottlenecking,
- underrated,
- taking aback,
- Remanding,
- punctured,
- sandbag,
- pass up,
- keep in,
- put in place,
- bend the rules,
- curb,
- circumlocute,
- shoot full of holes,
- shutting out,
- dashed hope,
- rebuff,
- give run around,
- upset,
- demolish,
- break,
- blow sky high,
- droop,
- dismay,
- dumped on,
- disparage,
- look askance at,
- warn,
- indispose,
- remonstrate,
- break one's heart,
- sending away,
- prorogue,
- send up,
- throw into a tizzy,
- not take kindly to,
- keeps out,
- slow down,
- disillusion,
- scare the daylights out of,
- casting down,
- hamper,
- de-motivate,
- Refusing,
- Disinclining,
- Tabooed,
- Repulsing,
- Uncalm,
- slowed down,
- slacken pace,
- disincline,
- downing,
- throw a wet blanket on,
- hold down,
- keeping in,
- scare away,
- turn down,
- put in one's place,
- make blue,
- paralyze,
- put a damper on,
- sandbags,
- withhold,
- forbid,
- bummed out,
- count me out,
- sends up,
- remands,
- cow,
- took aback,
- encumbered,
- turn aside,
- throw/pour cold water on something,
- Prolonging,
- send on a wild-goose chase,
- got down,
- Disfavoring,
- beat off,
- demoralize,
- dash one's hope,
- wear down,
- deprecate,
- promote,
- unmanned,
- throw a pall over,
- avoid,
- dampen,
- delay,
- show displeasure,
- give the run around,
- dash someone's hopes,
- distress,
- sillies,
- turn one off,
- attract attention,
- put on brakes,
- weigh,
- admonish,
- daunt,
- got to,
- keeping out,
- draw away,
- throw into tizzy,
- dump on,
- play for time,
- Damped,
- urge,
- thwart,
- gets to,
- divert,
- Dispraising,
- sadden,
- head off,
- scare,
- block,
- sent up,
- afflict,
- persuasion,
- unaccustom,
- take wind out of sails,
- appall,
- bar,
- insure against,
- take dim view of,
- frown on,
- guard against,
- push back,
- prostrate,
- dash,
- alarm,
- remand,
- put off,
- disinclines,
- keep at bay,
- protract,
- curdle the blood,
- avert,
- let down,
- try,
- weaken,
- lead away,
- reined in,
- deter,
- fending off,
- Dulling,
- reduce to tears,
- not go for,
- overawe,
- unmans,
- Disfavored,
- keep from,
- hang up,
- except,
- vex,
- hogtie,
- reins in,
- turn off,
- keeps under,
- restrain,
- take aback,
- took apart,
- leaning on,
- dissuade,
- knock bottom out,
- inhibit,
- bother,
- take a dim view of,
- advise against,
- unnerved,
- bottlenecked,
- beat down,
- dispraises,
- abash,
- gain time,
- perturb,
- wean,
- catch flies,
- depress,
- get down,
- intermit,
- prohibit,
- derail,
- get to,
- keep under,
- take exception to,
- scare to death,
- shake,
- kept in,
- squash,
- over-ride,
- interfere,
- Loitered,
- lay over,
- trouble,
- ward off,
- out wit,
- buffaloed,
- forestall,
- mucked up,
- monish,
- deflect,
- unmanning,
- sent away,
- stave off,
- Intermitting,
- lean on,
- chill,
- unman,
- make blood run cold,
- cramp one's style,
- cry out against,
- unnerve,
- hold over,
- intimidate,
- urge not to,
- quiet,
- put damper on,
- hold in,
- DISES,
- dishearten,
- be little,
- dispirit,
- Proroguing,
- hold no brief for,
- awe,
- buffalo,
- keep out,
- talking out of,
- persuade not to,
- freeze out,
- frighten,
- send away,
- block off,
- withholds,
- Filibustering,
- deject,
- sends away,
- Bitted,
- filibustered,
- getting to,
- preclude,
- bum out,
- keep distance,
- overawed,
- act like a wet blanket,
- Preventing,
- Shelving,
- strike terror into,
- dissing,
- drag down,
- dragging down,
- Ridiculed,
- stiffed,
- snafued,
- Unglue,
- hinder,
- blow out,
- takes aback,
- put hooks in,
- keeping back,
- disconcert,
- discourage,
- frowned on,
- check,
- hinders,
- confuse,
- throttle,
- Prorogued,
- scare off,
- throw cold water on,
- dulls,
- chilled to the bone,
- led astray,
- stifle,
- encumber,
- taking apart,
- cast down,
- take steam out,
- prevent,
- not stand for,
- talk out of,
- knock props from under,
- dis,
- Damping,
- give a turn,
- repress,
- blowing out,
- discountenance.
Usage Examples for DISCOURAGE
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But it wuz a good new handkerchief- red and yeller, with a palm- tree pattern on it- and I couldn't discourage him from huntin' for it. - "Samantha at the World's Fair" by Marietta Holley
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I thought it was a great deal more, but did not like to discourage her by saying so. - "A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2" by Florence Warden
