English words for 'That causes demotivation.'
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noun
- a negative motivational influence
- the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
- (specifically) Nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
- The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
- The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
verb
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- be lazy or idle
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
adj
intj
noun
- (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
- (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- (East Midlands, slang, vulgar) An act of anal sex.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
- a vagrant
- person who does no work
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
- depress or discourage
- make cool or cooler
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
- become less intense and fade away gradually
noun
- (UK, politics, slang, derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
- (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- A melt sandwich.
- Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
verb
- To cause to become distended.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
noun
adj
verb
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
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adj
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To depress; discourage; fatigue.
- (transitive) To criticise; to be strict towards.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To use a drug, especially heroin.
- (transitive) To record, most often in writing.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, US) To do or perform well; to make happen; to make a serious effort at doing something.
- (informal, intransitive) To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
- (informal, intransitive) To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, US) To bet on (something); to place bets; to gamble.
- (informal, intransitive, slang) To have sex.
- (intransitive, British, informal, of a child) To leave the table after dining.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.
- (informal, intransitive) To party.
- (transitive or intransitive) To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
- (transitive) To swallow (something).
- (intransitive) To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
- (intransitive) To concentrate; attend.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- lower (one's body) as by kneeling
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- alight from (a horse)
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
noun
- depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- a state of disorder and confusion
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- The act of corrupting or subverting morale, discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in morale.
- The act degrading the moral value of something.
noun
- A negative influence.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- A secret or indirect influence.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
adj
verb
noun
- the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
- the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
- the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
noun
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- (law) The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- impart skills or knowledge to
noun
verb
adj
noun
noun
- a negative motivational influence
- the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- An action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
- (specifically) Nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
- The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
- The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
- The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
noun
- depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- a state of disorder and confusion
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- The act of corrupting or subverting morale, discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in morale.
- The act degrading the moral value of something.
noun
- A negative influence.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- A secret or indirect influence.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
adj
verb
noun
- the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
- the act of intimidating a weaker person to make them do something
- the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
- a communication that makes you afraid to try something
- The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
noun
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- (law) The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
- a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
verb
- To depress; to make unhappy.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
- (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
- (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
- (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
- (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
- be lazy or idle
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
adj
intj
noun
- (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
- (colloquial) A drinking spree.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
- (East Midlands, slang, vulgar) An act of anal sex.
- (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
- (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
- a vagrant
- person who does no work
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
verb
- depress or discourage
- make cool or cooler
- loose heat
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
noun
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- (transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- become or cause to become soft or liquid
- reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
- become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
- become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
- become less intense and fade away gradually
noun
- (UK, politics, slang, derogatory) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
- (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- A melt sandwich.
- Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
- the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
verb
- To cause to become distended.
- (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
- (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
- To increase to an excessive amount.
- To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.
- To fill with vanity or conceit.
- become bloated or swollen or puff up
- make bloated or swollen
noun
verb
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
verb
- (transitive) To depress; discourage; fatigue.
- (transitive) To criticise; to be strict towards.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To use a drug, especially heroin.
- (transitive) To record, most often in writing.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, US) To do or perform well; to make happen; to make a serious effort at doing something.
- (informal, intransitive) To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.
- (informal, intransitive) To dance, particularly without inhibition or restraint, or in a sexually suggestive manner.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, US) To bet on (something); to place bets; to gamble.
- (informal, intransitive, slang) To have sex.
- (intransitive, British, informal, of a child) To leave the table after dining.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, down.
- (informal, intransitive) To party.
- (transitive or intransitive) To bring or come down; to descend; to cause to bring or come down.
- (transitive) To swallow (something).
- (intransitive) To relax and enjoy oneself completely; be uninhibited in one's enjoyment.
- (intransitive) To concentrate; attend.
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- lower (one's body) as by kneeling
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- alight from (a horse)
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
verb
- (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
- (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
- (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
- (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
- accustom gradually to some action or attitude
- impart skills or knowledge to