demoralizing
Other forms: demoralizingly
Things that discourage you, or make you lose confidence, are demoralizing. It can be demoralizing to study hard for a test and do badly on it.
When you are rejected — getting turned down for a job or a date or a scholarship — it's demoralizing. If people whose opinions you value put you down or belittle you, that's demoralizing too. A more old-fashioned meaning of the word is "corrupting someone's morals," from the French démoraliser, which is thought to have been coined during the French Revolution.
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destructive of morale and self-reliance
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synonyms:
demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting
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discouraging
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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discouraging
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Vocabulary lists containing demoralizing
Following his parents' death, Alex discovers that he has the ability to see the future. After seeing his brother's impending death, Alex's world is turned upside down as he tries to change the future and save his brother.
Students at Branton Middle School begin communicating with each other by means of sticky notes — but soon, kids are using words as weapons.
Claire's parents send her from China to California to live with a host family and attend an American high school.