Discouragement is valid Scrabble Word

Is discouragement a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is discouragement valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

14 letters word
20 points in Scrabble
25 points in WWF

Definitions for DISCOURAGEMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:

the act of discouraging
a loss of confidence or enthusiasm; dispiritedness
an attempt to prevent something by showing disapproval or creating difficulties; deterrent
The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
the expression of opposition and disapproval

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the act of discouraging; the state of being discouraged

Words related to DISCOURAGEMENT

discourage14

Words that contain DISCOURAGEMENT

discouragements21

How to use DISCOURAGEMENT in a sentence

With its discouragement came that dogged persistence that was characteristic of the girl.
Although the besieged from their elevated position fought without danger and wounded many Romans, yet the latter did not yield to discouragement, but continued the work.
You must not be surprised, then, at our discouragement and our impatience.
In 1850 the new Fugitive Slave Law brought discouragement to the hearts of the friends of liberty.
The year 1823 was one of mingled discouragement and hope.
Discouragement and desertion did not appear among them till the goal was almost reached.
But Keats and Shelley worked on in discouragement and obscurity.
Discouragement had taken possession of the Liegese, the bravest of whom had fallen.
There was no hint of discouragement in what he wrote then.
He let no hint of discouragement creep into anything he wrote to us.

This struggle tends to discouragement, and the victims of this discouragement are the criminal and the tramp.
A man devoid of brilliancy may on occasion show that he possesses great good sense, or that he has the power of sticking to his task in spite of discouragement.
While it had cost me more than was originally contemplated, and while there was yet more money to be spent, there was still no reason for discouragement.
Six months of idleness following a long run of fever, a lost position, and consequent discouragement had brought poverty and wretchedness to Joe Bennett.
But she was too deeply plunged in her own discouragement to display real interest, and it had required every ounce of courage she possessed to prevent herself falling to weeping.
He knew that Barbara was tired out with the steady grind of creation, and that she had been going through an equally steady grind of discouragement and uncertainty.
There had been moments of supreme discouragement, when, if there was to be a miracle in his life, he should have spoken.
The realization that no escape could be found from an American war was forced on the British public at a moment of much discouragement.
Although Mozart did not guess this state of affairs, yet his heart sank with discouragement and uncertainty.
Then with late September came fatigue and discouragement.
There are men whose sole pretense to wisdom consists in administering discouragement.
All the rest of us remain in discouragement and unhappiness to see such things, so opposite to good government and the Christian religion, and so full of peril to consciences.
They were strenuous in their discouragement of vice, and in the promotion of virtue.
I think she deserve more especially from me than to call her a Sweet Dear Lady, because that I have the discouragement, and she make me to laugh and take heart.
His feeling of positive discouragement, with the natural rebound of his impulsive temperament, had in a measure given place to one of confidence and even of elation.
You see, I hope, that if I maintain a passive position, it is not from indolence or discouragement.

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