Synonyms for Discountenance:

v.
• bar
- de bar
- de barred
- de barring
- de bars
- de-bar
- de-barred
- de-barring
- de-bars
- dis allow
- dis allowed
- dis allowing
- dis allows
- dis countenance
- dis countenanced
- dis countenances
- dis countenancing
- dis-allow
- dis-allowed
- dis-allowing
- dis-allows
- dis-countenance
- dis-countenanced
- dis-countenances
- dis-countenancing
- ex cept
- ex-cept
- freezes out
- freezing out
- froze out
- inter dict
- inter fere
- inter feres
- inter-dict
- inter-fere
- inter-feres
- out lawed
- out lawing
- out-lawed
- out-lawing
- over ridden
- over ride
- over rides
- over riding
- over rode
- over-ridden
- over-rides
- over-riding
- over-rode
- pre vent
- pre vented
- pre venting
- pre vents
- pre-vent
- pre-vented
- pre-venting
- pre-vents
- re fuse
- re fused
- re fuses
- re fusing
- re strain
- re strained
- re straining
- re strains
- re-fuse
- re-fused
- re-fuses
- re-fusing
- re-strain
- re-strained
- re-straining
- re-strains
• cognition
- discountenance
• confound
- be fog
- be fogged
- be fogging
- be fogs
- be wilder
- be wildered
- be wildering
- be wilders
- be-fog
- be-fogged
- be-fogging
- be-fogs
- be-wilder
- be-wildered
- be-wildering
- be-wilders
- metagrobolizes
- metagrobolizing
- mis identified
- mis identifies
- mis identify
- mis identifying
- mis-identified
- mis-identifies
- mis-identify
- mis-identifying
- misidentifying
- sur prise
- sur prises
- sur prising
- sur-prise
- sur-prised
- sur-prises
- sur-prising
• confuse
- be clouded
- be clouding
- be clouds
- be devil
- be deviled
- be deviling
- be devilled
- be devilling
- be devils
- be fuddle
- be fuddled
- be fuddles
- be fuddling
- be muse
- be mused
- be musing
- be-cloud
- be-clouded
- be-clouding
- be-clouds
- be-devil
- be-deviled
- be-deviling
- be-devilled
- be-devilling
- be-devils
- be-fuddle
- be-fuddled
- be-fuddles
- be-fuddling
- be-muse
- be-mused
- be-musing
- dis compose
- dis composed
- dis composes
- dis composing
- dis orient
- dis oriented
- dis orienting
- dis orients
- dis tract
- dis tracts
- dis-compose
- dis-composed
- dis-composes
- dis-composing
- dis-orient
- dis-oriented
- dis-orienting
- dis-orients
- dis-tract
- dis-tracts
- leads astray
- mis inform
- mis informed
- mis informing
- mis informs
- mis lead
- mis leading
- mis leads
- mis-inform
- mis-informed
- mis-informing
- mis-informs
- mis-lead
- mis-leading
- mis-leads
- rendered uncertain
- rendering uncertain
- renders uncertain
- threw balance
- threw off balance
- throw balance
- throwing balance
- throwing off balance
- throws balance
- un hinge
- un hinged
- un hinges
- un hinging
- un settle
- un settled
- un settles
- un settling
- un-hinge
- un-hinged
- un-hinges
- un-hinging
- un-settle
- un-settled
- un-settles
- un-settling
- up sets
- up setting
- up-set
- up-sets
- up-setting
• demoralize
- blew out
- blows out
- de moralize
- de moralized
- de moralizes
- de moralizing
- de-moralize
- de-moralized
- de-moralizes
- de-moralizing
- dis arrange
- dis arranged
- dis arranges
- dis arranging
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis order
- dis ordered
- dis ordering
- dis orders
- dis organize
- dis organized
- dis organizes
- dis organizing
- dis-arrange
- dis-arranged
- dis-arranges
- dis-arranging
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- dis-order
- dis-ordered
- dis-ordering
- dis-orders
- dis-organize
- dis-organized
- dis-organizes
- dis-organizing
- gat to
- gotten to
- psyching out
- psychs out
- sending up
- takes apart
- takes steam out
- taking steam out
- took steam out
- un glue
- un glued
- un glues
- un gluing
- un man
- un manned
- un manning
- un mans
- un zip
- un zipping
- un zips
- un-glue
- un-glued
- un-glues
- un-gluing
- un-man
- un-manned
- un-manning
- un-mans
- un-zip
- un-zipped
- un-zipping
- un-zips
- under mined
- under mining
- under-mined
- under-mining
• deprecate
- cut down size
- cuts down size
- cuts down to size
- cutting down size
- cutting down to size
- de tract
- de tracts
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- dis commend
- dis commended
- dis commending
- dis commends
- dis favor
- dis favored
- dis favoring
- dis favors
- dis-commend
- dis-commended
- dis-commending
- dis-commends
- dis-favor
- dis-favored
- dis-favoring
- dis-favors
- disapproved of
- disapproves of
- disapproving of
- discommended
- discommending
- discommends
- ex postulate
- ex postulated
- ex postulates
- ex postulating
- ex-postulate
- ex-postulated
- ex-postulates
- ex-postulating
- mudslinged
- mudslings
- poohpooh
- poor mouthed
- poor mouthing
- poor mouths
- protested against
- protesting against
- protests against
- takes dim view of
- takes exception to
- taking dim view of
- taking exception to
- took dim view of
- took exception to
• depreciate
- clamored against
- clamoring against
- clamors against
- de cried
- de cries
- de cry
- de crying
- de fame
- de famed
- de fames
- de faming
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-cried
- de-cries
- de-cry
- de-crying
- de-fame
- de-famed
- de-fames
- de-faming
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis grace
- dis graced
- dis graces
- dis gracing
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- dis-grace
- dis-graced
- dis-graces
- dis-gracing
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- finding fault with
- finds fault with
- found fault with
- looked down on
- re vile
- re-vile
- scoffing at
- scoffs at
- sneered at
- sneering at
- sneers at
- take down peg
- takes down a peg
- takes down peg
- taking down a peg
- taking down peg
- took down a peg
- took down peg
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under estimating
- under rate
- under rated
- under rates
- under rating
- under value
- under valued
- under values
- under valuing
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimating
- under-rate
- under-rated
- under-rates
- under-rating
- under-value
- under-valued
- under-values
- under-valuing
• disapprove
- dis approve
- dis approved
- dis approves
- dis approving
- dis liked
- dis liking
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis-approve
- dis-approved
- dis-approves
- dis-approving
- dis-liked
- dis-liking
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- finding unacceptable
- finds unacceptable
- found unacceptable
- frowning on
- frowns on
- looked askance at
- looking askance at
- looks askance at
- nixed
- objected to
- objecting to
- objects to
- re probate
- re probated
- re probates
- re probating
- re prove
- re proved
- re proves
- re-probate
- re-probated
- re-probates
- re-probating
- re-prove
- re-proved
- re-proves
- re-proving
- sets aside
- zinged
• discomfit
- dis comfit
- dis comfits
- dis-comfit
- dis-comfits
- out wits
- out witted
- out witting
- out-wit
- out-wits
- out-witted
- out-witting
- over came
- over come
- over comes
- over coming
- over-came
- over-comes
- over-coming
• disconcert
- dis concert
- dis concerted
- dis concerting
- dis concerts
- dis-concert
- dis-concerted
- dis-concerting
- dis-concerts
- un balance
- un balances
- un balancing
- un did
- un does
- un doing
- un done
- un-balance
- un-balanced
- un-balances
- un-balancing
- un-did
- un-does
- un-doing
- upsets apple cart
- upsetting apple cart
• discourage
- dis advise
- dis advised
- dis advises
- dis advising
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis incline
- dis inclined
- dis inclines
- dis inclining
- dis-advise
- dis-advised
- dis-advises
- dis-advising
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-incline
- dis-inclined
- dis-inclines
- dis-inclining
- disadvised
- disadvises
- disadvising
- holds off
- in dispose
- in disposed
- in disposes
- in disposing
- in-dispose
- in-disposed
- in-disposes
- in-disposing
- indisposes
- re press
- re pressed
- re presses
- re pressing
- re-presses
- re-pressing
- talked out of
- talks out of
- threw cold water on
- throwing cold water on
- throws cold water on
- turns aside
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
• disesteem
- dis esteem
- dis esteemed
- dis esteeming
- dis esteems
- dis respect
- dis respected
- dis respecting
- dis respects
- dis-esteem
- dis-esteemed
- dis-esteeming
- dis-esteems
- dis-respect
- dis-respected
- dis-respecting
- dis-respects
• embarrass
- catch short
- catches one short
- catches short
- catching one short
- catching short
- caught one short
- dis tress
- dis tressed
- dis tresses
- dis-tress
- dis-tressed
- dis-tresses
- gave a bad time
- gave a hard time
- gave bad time
- gave hard time
- give bad time
- give hard time
- gives a bad time
- gives a hard time
- gives bad time
- gives hard time
- giving a bad time
- giving a hard time
- giving bad time
- giving hard time
- hanged up
- hanging up
- hangs up
- made a monkey of
- made monkey of
- make monkey of
- makes a monkey of
- makes monkey of
- making a monkey of
- making monkey of
- put a hole
- put a spot
- put hole
- put in hole
- put in spot
- put on spot
- put out countenance
- put spot
- put the spot
- puts a hole
- puts a spot
- puts hole
- puts in a hole
- puts in a spot
- puts in hole
- puts in spot
- puts on spot
- puts on the spot
- puts out countenance
- puts out of countenance
- puts spot
- puts the spot
- putting a hole
- putting a spot
- putting hole
- putting in a hole
- putting in a spot
- putting in hole
- putting in spot
- putting on spot
- putting on the spot
- putting out countenance
- putting out of countenance
- putting the spot
- threw in to a tizzy
- threw in to tizzy
- threw into a tizzy
- threw into tizzy
- throw in to a tizzy
- throw in to tizzy
- throwing in to a tizzy
- throwing in to tizzy
- throwing into a tizzy
- throwing into tizzy
- throws in to a tizzy
- throws in to tizzy
- throws into a tizzy
- throws into tizzy
• faze
- dis may
- dis mayed
- dis maying
- dis mays
- dis-may
- dis-mayed
- dis-maying
- dis-mays
• frown
- showed displeasure
- showing displeasure
- shows displeasure
- takes a dim view of
- taking a dim view of
- took a dim view of
• humiliate
- be mean
- be meaning
- be means
- be-mean
- be-meaning
- be-means
- bemeaning
- bemeans
- bringing low
- brings low
- casts down
- de base
- de based
- de basing
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de mean
- de meaning
- de means
- de press
- de pressed
- de presses
- de pressing
- de-base
- de-based
- de-basing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-mean
- de-meaning
- de-means
- de-press
- de-pressed
- de-presses
- de-pressing
- dis honor
- dis honored
- dis honoring
- dis honors
- dis-honor
- dis-honored
- dis-honoring
- dis-honors
- made a fool of
- made fool of
- make fool of
- makes a fool of
- makes ashamed
- makes fool of
- making a fool of
- making ashamed
- making fool of
- put shame
- shooting down
- shoots down
- sub due
- sub dues
- sub-due
- sub-dues
• nonplus
- buffaloing
- mess with head
- mess with one head
- mess with ones head
- messed with head
- messed with one head
- messed with one's head
- messed with ones head
- messes with head
- messes with one head
- messes with one's head
- messes with ones head
- messing with head
- messing with one head
- messing with one's head
- messing with ones head
- rattle cage
- rattle one cage
- rattle ones cage
- rattled cage
- rattled one cage
- rattled one's cage
- rattled ones cage
- rattles cage
- rattles one cage
- rattles one's cage
- rattles ones cage
- rattling cage
- rattling one cage
- rattling one's cage
- rattling ones cage
Other synonyms:

•

disesteem

•

abash

•

disapprove
mortify

•

confound

Other relevant words:

• censure

blame

• confuse

• disapprove

• frown

frown
not take kindly to
show displeasure
take a dim view of

• nonplus

• put out

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

put down

What are the hypernyms for Discountenance?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
disapprove, object, refuse, reject, repudiate, resist.

What are the hyponyms for Discountenance?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for discountenance (as verbs)
- cognition
  disapprove.
- emotion
  shame.

What are the opposite words for discountenance?

Discountenance is a verb meaning to disapprove, discourage or dissuade someone from doing something. Some antonyms for discountenance would include words like approve, support, encourage and stimulate. For instance, if you want to encourage someone to do something, you can say "I appreciate your effort" or "you have my support". Similarly, if you want to oppose someone from doing something discouraging, you can say "I advise against that" or "I cannot condone such behavior". Having a rich vocabulary of antonyms is essential for effective communication and expressing your thoughts and opinions persuasively.

What are the antonyms for Discountenance?

n.
• noun
- acclaim
- approbation
- approval
- commendation
- empathy
- endorsement
- favor
- praise
- sanction
- sympathy
v.
• embarrass, disconcert
- soothe
• noun
- accept
- admire
- appreciate
- consider
- permit
- suffer
• reject, oppose
- agree
- approve
- back
- countenance
- endorse
- go along
- support
Other relevant words:

allow

Usage examples for Discountenance

By agreement among nations, effort has been made to discountenance aggressive warfare.

"Sound Military Decision"

U.s. Naval War College

This barn lay a mile to the rear, across half a dozen meadows, over which Tristram was hurried at a quick trot, with the point of a bayonet at his back to discountenance delay.

"The Blue Pavilions"

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Does she not shun me, discountenance me, and reprove me, by her silence and her averted eyes?

"Anna St. Ives"

Thomas Holcroft

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