Definition for Disheartening:

• Discouraging.

Synonyms for Disheartening:

• n.

  •
  • unhappy,
  • tragic,
  • heartbreaking,
  • painful,
  • sad,
  • upsetting,
  • miserable,
  • terrible.

• v.

  •de-motivating (verb)
  • stifling,
  • curbing,
  • hindering,
  • Hampering,
  • Paralyzing,
  • de-motivating,
  • impeding,
  • frustrating,
  • throttling.
  •dejecting (verb)
  • Dejecting.
  •disappointing (verb)
  • disillusioning,
  • dashing,
  • thwarting.
  •dissuading (verb)
  • averting,
  • barring,
  • Restraining,
  • diverting,
  • dampening,
  • Dissuading,
  • inhibiting,
  • admonishing,
  • Checking,
  • Deflecting,
  • banning,
  • intimidating,
  • Preventing,
  • Derailing,
  • Disinclining.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • discouragement,
  • desperately,
  • comfortless,
  • dejected,
  • unnerving,
  • bad,
  • unnerve,
  • afflictive,
  • drearily,
  • discouragingly,
  • Evading,
  • daunt,
  • Circumventing,
  • intolerable,
  • lugubrious,
  • depress,
  • dampen,
  • melancholy,
  • disastrous,
  • brutal,
  • dolorous,
  • dauntingly,
  • wearying,
  • below average,
  • abject,
  • dejectedly,
  • crapper,
  • blue,
  • grandly,
  • heavy,
  • gloomy,
  • gloom,
  • unpleasant,
  • dispiritedly,
  • piteous,
  • Damping,
  • discourage,
  • hedging,
  • throne,
  • disheartened,
  • sadly,
  • debasing,
  • dissuade,
  • cheerless,
  • dodging,
  • deplorable,
  • Commandingly,
  • distressing,
  • Discountenancing,
  • woeful,
  • despondency,
  • depression,
  • cast down,
  • Afflicting,
  • magnificently,
  • impressively,
  • overwhelming,
  • woe,
  • repressive,
  • eluding,
  • cold,
  • pot,
  • keep,
  • unendurable,
  • disconcert,
  • pathetic,
  • unpropitious,
  • burdensome,
  • despair,
  • deaden,
  • humiliating,
  • slow,
  • faeces,
  • vile,
  • muffle,
  • boring,
  • dejection,
  • unbearable,
  • grim,
  • ordure,
  • Shelving,
  • tyrannical,
  • catastrophic,
  • spiritless,
  • Tabling,
  • check,
  • despond,
  • harrowing,
  • Flurrying,
  • ducking,
  • hopelessly,
  • tedious,
  • downcast,
  • debase,
  • pitiable,
  • horrify,
  • moisten,
  • grievous,
  • joyless,
  • desolate,
  • sadness,
  • murkily,
  • dull,
  • deter,
  • disconsolate,
  • dark,
  • arrestingly,
  • dispirit,
  • obscurely,
  • gloomily,
  • daunts,
  • grief,
  • debauch,
  • deprave,
  • Parrying,
  • rueful,
  • Postponing,
  • below par,
  • subservient,
  • austere,
  • overpowering,
  • shake,
  • dispirited,
  • stool,
  • Remitting,
  • sorrowful,
  • harsh,
  • sombre,
  • affecting,
  • wretched,
  • cumbersome,
  • agonizing,
  • strikingly,
  • toilet,
  • daunted,
  • unmanning,
  • lamentable,
  • unsettle,
  • depressingly,
  • intimidatingly,
  • dismally,
  • Oppressing,
  • mournful,
  • demoralize,
  • commode,
  • Cowing,
  • deadening,
  • movement,
  • appal,
  • onerous,
  • heartsick,
  • severe,
  • racking,
  • Fudging,
  • enervate,
  • darkly,
  • Deferring,
  • somberly,
  • confusing,
  • sidestepping,
  • exhausting,
  • frighten,
  • touching,
  • disenchanting,
  • skirting,
  • sorrow,
  • appall,
  • deject,
  • calamitous,
  • inhospitable,
  • quiet,
  • low-spirited,
  • slack,
  • dishearten,
  • despairingly,
  • saddening,
  • despondently,
  • substandard.

Paraphrases for Disheartening:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    discouraging, depressing, dispiriting.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    disappointed, bleak, grim, devastating, depressed.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    discouraging, Addressing, depressing, demotivating, Deterring.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disappointing, distressing, frustrating, daunting, disheartened, dismal, sad, dismaying, frustrated.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    dispiriting.

Homophones for Disheartening:

• discreteness, discreetness, degrading, discordance.