| 词汇 | unencouraging |
| 释义 | unencouraging adjective uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˈkʌr.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˈkɝː.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/ not giving you more confidence or hope: Children from families with unencouraging parents often lack confidence in school. This way of recycling bottles has been tried before, with unencouraging results. For some reason, his manner suddenly became unencouraging. She gave him a very unencouraging look. The results of the experiment were unencouraging. Trade prospects between the two countries are still unencouraging. I'd been waiting for his response, and when he arrived, his face was unencouraging. Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampen someone's spirits dampener on something daunt deter deterrence deterrent discourage discouragement dishearten disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation spoil someone's partyidiom spoke take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom throw cold water on somethingidiom Comparediscouraging uninspiring Oppositeencouraging |
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