encourage
verb (used with object)
to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence.
unencouraged
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a word derived from
encourage.
Example Sentences
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After which he was left undisturbed, and unencouraged, until the local milkman, who'd heard him on his morning rounds, somehow talked the family into getting the kid lessons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hesitatingly and unencouraged, half to his daughter, and half to some invisible schoolmaster, whose lesson he might have learned by rote, Mr. Menemon fluttered the letter and sought some prefatory word.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
If this abundance all slighted and unencouraged can still comfort us, what wouldn't it do for us tended and fostered and cultivated?
From Within the Rim and Other Essays by Henry James
It could not have been in the nature of this artless child, unencouraged and alone, to have been an impostor.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
During this interval Leos did some unencouraged courting, but at last, "choked by his undertaking," he desisted.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain
