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demotivational

demotivational adjective: tending or intended to demotivate.

Adjective

demotivational (comparative more demotivational, superlative most demotivational)

  1. Tending or intended to demotivate.
    • But could a demotivational process have begun in prelinguistic times and what we see today be a continuation of that?1989, Jan Wind, Studies in Language Origins, volume 3, page 232
    Synonyms:
    demotivating

Synonyms of demotivational

Forms of demotivational

comparativemore demotivational
superlativemost demotivational

Origin of demotivational

From de- + motivational.

Questions about demotivational

What does demotivational mean?
Demotivational means tending or intended to demotivate.
What part of speech is demotivational?
Demotivational is an adjective.

Words near demotivational in the dictionary

  1. demotivate
  2. demotivated
  3. demotivates
  4. demotivating
  5. demotivation
  6. demotivational
  7. demotivations
  8. demotivator
  9. demotivators
  10. demould
  11. demoulded

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