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How to pronounce “discouraged”
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Pronunciation guide for discouraged
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of discouraged with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid
started working on it several years ago, we were very much discouraged.
- Definition summary
- Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.
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How to pronounce discouraged
Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid

started working on it several years ago, we were very much discouraged.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “discouraged”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.
- unrecommended; unprescribed.
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of discourage
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