how to pronounce discouraged

/dɪsˈkɝɪdʒd/

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discouraged is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of discouraged in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… so I think that discouraged people like …”

meanings of discouraged

adjective:

Unrecommended; unprescribed.
Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of discourage.

discouraged frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word discouraged occurs in english on average 6.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics discouraged can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that discouraged can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;