unencouraging

1. 1.

   not encouraging

   Similardiscouraging

Questions about unencouraging

What does unencouraging mean?

unencouraging means "not encouraging".

How many syllables are in unencouraging?

unencouraging has 5 syllables and divides as u-nen-cou-ra-ging under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is unencouraging a common word?

unencouraging is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.