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discourageable en · ADJ

Etymology

From discourage + -able.

Meanings

  1. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
    • O love of unthankful souls, not discourageable by the most hateful indignities, by the basest repulses! 1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC:

Forms

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more discourageable Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most discourageable Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

undiscourageable