Synonyms for Disheartening:

• adj.

  •appalling (adjective)
  • grodiest,
  • more daunting,
  • more disheartening,
  • dis-maying,
  • most disheartening,
  • most dismaying,
  • more unnerving,
  • un-nerving,
  • un nerving,
  • most daunting,
  • more petrifying,
  • most scaring,
  • more scaring,
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis maying,
  • most petrifying,
  • more dismaying,
  • endest,
  • most unnerving,
  • Ender,
  • dis heartening,
  • grodier.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • drearest,
  • un promising,
  • more unpromising,
  • hopeless,
  • un-promising,
  • most unpromising,
  • drearer.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • de-pressing,
  • de pressing,
  • more dejecting,
  • most dejecting,
  • more saddening,
  • most saddening.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • falling short.
  •discouraging (adjective)
  • more off putting,
  • dis advantageous,
  • in opportune,
  • more off-putting,
  • in-opportune,
  • un-propitious,
  • re-pressing,
  • off putting,
  • un favorable,
  • more dissuading,
  • more dampening,
  • most dissuading,
  • most dampening,
  • more repressing,
  • most repressing,
  • most hindering,
  • un-favorable,
  • dis-advantageous,
  • un propitious,
  • most depressive,
  • more depressive,
  • more offputting,
  • re pressing,
  • most offputting,
  • unpropitious,
  • more hindering,
  • most off putting,
  • most off-putting,
  • offputting.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • inauspicious,
  • de solate,
  • de-pressed,
  • de pressed,
  • dis agreeable,
  • over-cast,
  • de-solate,
  • doleful,
  • un fortunate,
  • un-fortunate,
  • over cast,
  • un happier,
  • in auspicious,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un happiest,
  • un happy,
  • in-auspicious,
  • in pits,
  • un-happy,
  • overcast.
  •dispiriting (adjective)
  • de-moralizing,
  • de moralizing,
  • most crushing.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • rebarbative.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • tenebrific,
  • gloomy,
  • more acheronian,
  • most acheronian,
  • more acherontic,
  • most acherontic.
  •off (adjective)
  • more turned,
  • un satisfactory,
  • most unrewarding,
  • not up par,
  • more mortifying,
  • de-composed,
  • sub standard,
  • more unrewarding,
  • most turned,
  • not up to snuff,
  • not to par,
  • un rewarding,
  • more decomposed,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • dis pleasing,
  • most mortifying,
  • not to snuff,
  • sub-standard,
  • lowquality,
  • not snuff,
  • dis-pleasing,
  • un-rewarding,
  • most decomposed,
  • de composed,
  • not up snuff,
  • not par.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • most confining,
  • more headache,
  • Over-bearing,
  • un just,
  • more ironhanded,
  • super-incumbent,
  • heavyhanded,
  • un-juster,
  • most headache,
  • un juster,
  • over bearing,
  • more confining,
  • super incumbent,
  • heavy handed,
  • un-justest,
  • ex-acting,
  • ex acting,
  • in-human,
  • in human,
  • most superincumbent,
  • most ironhanded,
  • more superincumbent,
  • un-just,
  • un justest.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • off,
  • drear,
  • acheronian,
  • grody,
  • head ache,
  • heart-rending,
  • depressive,
  • rough going,
  • off-putting,
  • in the pits,
  • unpromising,
  • dismal,
  • unrewarding,
  • depressing,
  • the end,
  • appalling,
  • acherontic,
  • discouraging,
  • disappointing,
  • superincumbent,
  • oppressive,
  • low quality,
  • not up to par,
  • ironhanded.
  •sad (adjective)
  • most heart rending,
  • dis-composing,
  • up setting,
  • heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • up-setting,
  • tearful,
  • dis composing,
  • more heart-rending,
  • more discomposing,
  • more heart rending,
  • tear jerking,
  • most discomposing,
  • tearjerking.

• n.

  •
  • unhappy,
  • tragic,
  • heartbreaking,
  • painful,
  • sad,
  • upsetting,
  • miserable,
  • terrible.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • dismaying,
  • dreary,
  • frightful,
  • dissatisfactory,
  • scary,
  • demoralizing,
  • demoralising,
  • down,
  • ungratifying,
  • fear-inspiring,
  • pessimistic,
  • insufficient,
  • disquieting,
  • unsatisfying,
  • Overawing,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • deterrent,
  • despondent,
  • funereal,
  • depressant,
  • not good enough,
  • disconcerting,
  • bleak,
  • fearsome,
  • fearful,
  • unfulfilling,
  • dispiriting,
  • Deterring,
  • chilling,
  • incommensurate,
  • awing,
  • black,
  • inadequate,
  • Scaring,
  • somber,
  • daunting,
  • a battery,
  • frightening,
  • alarming,
  • displeasing,
  • startling.

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

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.