Discouraging
Discouraging adjective - Depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action.
Hair-raising and discouraging are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hair-raising" instead an adjective "Discouraging".
Hair-raising
Hair-raising adjective - Causing fear.
Usage example: hair-raising stories of headless corpses and disembodied screams
Discouraging and hair-raising are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Discouraging" instead an adjective phrase "Hair-raising".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- disturbing and discouraging
- disturbing and hair-raising
- horrible and discouraging
- horrible and hair-raising
- distressing and discouraging
- distressing and hair-raising
- formidable and discouraging
- formidable and hair-raising
- alarming and discouraging
- alarming and hair-raising
- disquieting and discouraging
- disquieting and hair-raising
- startling and discouraging
- startling and hair-raising
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