Index of English words, starting with "di"

(1) - Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.

(1) - Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
(2) - Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
(3) - Discourage (v. t.) 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.

(1) - Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
(2) - Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

(1) - Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.
(2) - Discouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourage