" discouraging "

 [ "discourage" ]

1: to tend to prevent something from happening by making it more difficult or unpleasant; to try to stop somebody from doing something

  * e.g.,  ... We must not be discouraged in reaching our dreams no matter what problems come to us. 

 [ "Discourage" ]

1: To enforce a student to suffer the consequences of being enrolled in a calculus-related course.

  * e.g.,  ... The all-A's student was discouraged after taking his pre-calculus exam. 

 [ "discouraged" ]

1: having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened.

  * e.g.,  ... "he must be feeling pretty discouraged" 

 [ "discouraged workers" ]

1: In economics, discouraged workers is a person of legal employment age who is not actively seeking employment or who does not find employment after long-term unemployment. This is usually because an individual has given up looking or has had no success in finding a job, hence the term "discouraged". A discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.

  * e.g.,  ... The top five reasons for discouraged workers are the following: 1)The worker thinks no work is available. 

 [ "discouraged perfectionist" ]

1: You think you are perfect. You may be ready to overindulge yourself in one way or another. You may be an ultra perfectionist and you get frustrated when things don’t go your way. You may become very impatient with, or intolerant of, people who don’t measure up to your standards. You may be very structured, with high expectations for yourself and others. You may agonize over the problems of others and want to move in, take over, and solve everything. You are afraid of losing others and will do anything to keep them in your life.

  * e.g.,  ... Dr. Kevin Leeman uses "discouraged perfectionist" in his book "The Birth Order Book" 

 [ "Discouraged Dater" ]

1: Someone who is currently not dating, who wants to date, but has not attempted to start dating for a long time because they gave up, believe nobody is suitable, or is mentally exhausted from unsuccessful attempts.

  * e.g.,  ... Person 1: Hey man, you haven't dated in a while, why don't you go out and find someone. 

 [ "discouraged" ]

1: The opposite of confident, which is not the same as unhappy.

  * e.g.,  ... If he/she didn't get discouraged as much, more things would become possible.