Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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discouraging | No | Yes | No | No |
hopeless | No | Yes | No | No |
discouraging (adjective) | hopeless (adjective) |
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depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success |
expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform |
certain to fail | |
of a person unable to do something skillfully |