Communication
Synonyms for discourage
Synonyms for discourage: deter and warn. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for discourage
Interchangeable with discourage in this sense
Audited under discourage's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one discourage carries in that sense.
- deterverb, in the sense "try to prevent"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name discourage as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- warnwarn is a verb in the sense "advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior"
The first group is filed under discourage's own sense. The second reaches discourage from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
try to prevent
We should discourage this practice among our youth.
The true synonym
deter
Same sentence, swapped: We should deter this practice among our youth.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for discourage in the sentence quoted.
- admonish
- object
- darken
Where discourage turns up in the game
discourage is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where discourage is the trap
- enlistverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is recruit, in the sense "to persuade people to join a group or support a cause", so discourage is there to be ruled out.
Play discourage
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so discourage reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because communication is the company discourage keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. discourage carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.