Synonyms of demoralizing

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adjective

as in discouraging

Synonyms & Similar Words

• discouraging
• disheartening
• disconcerting
• dismaying
• daunting
• dispiriting
• troublesome
• troubling
• upsetting
• distressing
• unsettling
• disturbing
• disquieting
• worrisome
• discomfiting
• frightening
• perturbing
• nagging
• discomforting
• troublous
• chilling
• scary
• discomposing
• alarming
• terrifying
• nasty
• horrifying
• shocking
• terrible
• dread
• persecutory
• horrible
• fearful
• harassing
• dreadful
• formidable
• ghastly
• horrendous
• dire
• forbidding
• intimidating
• frightful
• fearsome
• persecutive
• direful
• hair-raising

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reassuring
• settling
• soothing
• calming
• comforting
• relaxing
• narcotic
• consoling
• dreamy
• sedative
• quieting
• inviting
• tranquilizing
• tranquillizing
• pacifying
• lulling

demoralizing

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verb

present participle of demoralize

1

as in paralyzing

to deprive of courage or confidence

the mere sight of the forbidding cliffs demoralized the climbers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• paralyzing
• frightening
• intimidating
• terrifying
• scaring
• emasculating
• unnerving
• unsettling
• undoing
• debilitating
• discouraging
• wasting
• unmanning
• enervating
• weakening
• disheartening
• disturbing
• sapping
• upsetting
• enfeebling
• tiring
• unstringing
• dispiriting
• terrorizing
• softening
• daunting
• neutering
• dismaying
• maddening
• disquieting
• perturbing
• unbalancing
• prostrating
• unhinging
• deranging
• psyching (out)
• crazing
• fazing
• discomposing
• weirding out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• strengthening
• fortifying
• encouraging
• nerving
• emboldening
• heartening

2

as in frustrating

to lessen the courage or confidence of

we refused to be demoralized by our humiliating defeat and vowed to come roaring back the following week

Synonyms & Similar Words

• discouraging
• frustrating
• disheartening
• daunting
• intimidating
• dispiriting
• frightening
• unnerving
• horrifying
• dismaying
• scaring
• troubling
• chilling
• afflicting
• worrying
• distressing
• unmanning
• bothering
• bullying
• throwing cold water on
• depressing
• weighing
• trying
• saddening
• browbeating
• debilitating
• undermining
• deadening
• cowing
• weakening
• vexing
• dampening
• enfeebling
• damping
• irking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• encouraging
• cheering
• reinforcing
• invigorating
• enforcing
• emboldening
• enlivening
• nerving
• heartening
• strengthening
• animating
• reassuring
• exciting
• assuring
• steeling
• stimulating
• fortifying
• gladdening
• stirring
• energizing
• inspiring
• lifting
• provoking
• galvanizing
• buoying (up)
• reenforcing
• rallying
• boosting
• quickening

3

as in degrading

to lower in character, dignity, or quality

felt society as a whole has been demoralized by the widespread availability of pornography

Synonyms & Similar Words

• degrading
• humiliating
• deteriorating
• corrupting
• weakening
• damaging
• demeaning
• poisoning
• debasing
• subverting
• debauching
• diluting
• destroying
• perverting
• depraving
• ruining
• disgracing
• lessening
• vitiating
• polluting
• prostituting
• marring
• humbling
• cankering
• cheapening
• shaming
• warping
• bastardizing
• tainting
• hurting
• contaminating
• profaning
• abasing
• impairing
• thinning
• wrecking
• harming
• dishonoring
• defiling
• dirtying
• spoiling
• tarnishing
• descending
• staining
• watering down
• befouling
• defacing
• downgrading
• depreciating
• begriming
• flawing
• taking down
• blemishing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• uplifting
• improving
• elevating
• honoring
• ennobling
• exalting
• enriching
• enhancing
• ameliorating
• amending
• dignifying
• perfecting
• cleaning
• restoring
• clarifying
• cleansing
• purifying
• bettering
• refining
• respecting
• meliorating