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What is the adjective for discourage?

What's the adjective for discourage? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb discourage which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

discouraged
discourageable
  1. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
  2. Examples:
    1. “O love of unthankful souls, not discourageable by the most hateful indignities, by the basest repulses!”
discouraging
  1. that causes discouragement
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And it was discouraging to him to think of having to appease four sharpened appetites with a crust of bread.”
      “That so many of the hopes and fears arising out of contemporary federalism issues should be riveted on this supremely unlikely institution is itself a discouraging sign of implosion.”
      “It is asked why did Jupiter, who ordained victory to the Trojans, send them a discouraging omen?”
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