Synonyms:
discouraging
Meaning: depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
Usage examples
My account looked pretty discouraging.
It's discouraging, this sort of thing.
The first week of school life is apt to be quite discouraging, and we can not too emphatically warn the young girl not to do anything rash under the influence of homesickness.
But such a movement, at that time, would not have been understood by the country, and would have had a discouraging effect on the public mind, which it was most essential to avoid.
The good man could not but be a little flattered, and if sometimes, thereafter, in his discouraging work, he allowed the thought that he might perhaps be called to Washington as chaplain of the Senate, to cheer him, who can wonder.