discourageable

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adjective

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivediscourageable (comparative more discourageable, superlative most discourageable)

comparative more discourageable · superlative most discourageable

  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

Origin

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