desalentador

adj.

dispiriting, discouraging.

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desalentador

► adjetivo

1 discouraging, disheartening

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ADJ discouraging

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-dora adjetivo disheartening, discouraging

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= bleak, daunting, disappointing, discouraging, off-putting, disheartening, dismaying, grim [grimmer -comp., grimmest -sup.], grim-faced, dispiriting.

Ex. The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.

Ex. One of the most daunting aspect of music cataloguing arises from the fact that music and music recordings have international value.

Ex. The results obtained using this technique were somewhat disappointing, and led to a reappraisal of the approach.

Ex. Several pages of entries under one keyword are very discouraging, especially if the titles give insufficient information for some documents to be rapidly rejected.

Ex. Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.

Ex. This finding can be regarded as either disheartening or amazing according to one's own view of the function of a general bookshop.

Ex. In such a rapidly developing field as online services, the birth and death rate of reference and selection tools is impressive but dismaying to those trying to stay abreast of new titles.

Ex. Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.

Ex. In the English language, people are described as grim, while in Journalese they are referred to as being 'grim-faced'.

Ex. What is so dispiriting about this painting is that rather than being created in order to be challenging or even inspiring, it's intended only to be comforting.

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-dora adjetivo disheartening, discouraging

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= bleak, daunting, disappointing, discouraging, off-putting, disheartening, dismaying, grim [grimmer -comp., grimmest -sup.], grim-faced, dispiriting.

Ex: The projections of qualified manpower into the year 2000 are bleak for personnel based industries.

Ex: One of the most daunting aspect of music cataloguing arises from the fact that music and music recordings have international value.

Ex: The results obtained using this technique were somewhat disappointing, and led to a reappraisal of the approach.

Ex: Several pages of entries under one keyword are very discouraging, especially if the titles give insufficient information for some documents to be rapidly rejected.

Ex: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.

Ex: This finding can be regarded as either disheartening or amazing according to one's own view of the function of a general bookshop.

Ex: In such a rapidly developing field as online services, the birth and death rate of reference and selection tools is impressive but dismaying to those trying to stay abreast of new titles.

Ex: Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.

Ex: In the English language, people are described as grim, while in Journalese they are referred to as being 'grim-faced'.

Ex: What is so dispiriting about this painting is that rather than being created in order to be challenging or even inspiring, it's intended only to be comforting.

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desalentador -dora

adjective

disheartening, discouraging

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desalentador

◊ -dora adjetivo

disheartening, discouraging
desalentador,-ora adjetivo discouraging, disheartening: el contenido de su carta era desalentador, the contents of the letter were discouraging

'desalentador' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
desalentadora
English:
daunting
- discouraging
- grim
- off-putting
- demoralizing
- disheartening

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desalentador, -ora adj

discouraging, disheartening

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desalentador

adj disheartening