[neūay-jai] (v, exp) EN: be downhearted ; be depressed ; be disheartened ; be despondent ; be downcast ; be discouraged ; be dispirited ; be mentally tired FR: être déprimé ; être découragé ; souffrir de fatigue mentale
[くさる, kusaru] (v5r, vi) (1) to rot; to go bad; to decay; to spoil; to fester; to decompose; to turn sour (e.g. milk); (2) to corrode; to weather; to crumble; (3) to become useless; to blunt; to weaken (from lack of practice); (4) to become depraved; to be degenerate; to be morally bankrupt; to be corrupt; (5) (See 気が腐る・きがくさる) to be depressed; to be dispirited; to feel discouraged; to feel down; (suf, v5r) (6) (uk) (ksb [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Discourage \Dis*cour"age\ (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Discouraged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Discouraging}.] [Pref. dis- +
courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. d['e]courager: pref. des-
(L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See {Courage}.]
1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress
the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; --
the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his
undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like
attempt.
[1913 Webster]
Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest
they be discouraged. --Col. iii.
21.
[1913 Webster]
2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to
seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they
discouraged his efforts.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade;
disfavor.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
discouraged
adj 1: made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized
people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the
magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor
tried vainly to arouse their interest" [syn:
{demoralized}, {demoralised}, {discouraged},
{disheartened}]
2: lacking in resolution; "the accident left others discouraged
about going there"
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