discouraging

Modifies a noun

• factor: Enck also pointed to IM's capacity for showing other users ' online status as one of several discouraging factors for telcos.
• word: Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, For what can an antelope say?
• thing: Most of the people say discouraging things about the guards.
• people: Discouraging people in need of support from seeking it seems rather unhelpful.
• experience: In his psychiatric work with children, Fitch met the same discouraging experience which had induced Dr. Dodd to found his school.
• circumstance: Such discouraging circumstances have caused many writers to emigrate to the west.

Modifying Another Word

• very: I understand, but it may also be very discouraging for friends who only make films for fun.
• rather: First, he had some rather discouraging comments for the press.
• slightly: Ken's a senior coach with the NFA so everyone gave him slightly discouraging remarks!
• quite: Notes Working for someone with very high standards can be quite discouraging.
• so: Originally it was the laborious tasks of scanning and digitizing that I had found so discouraging.
• somewhat: But, as I remember, he was somewhat discouraging.