encouraging

adjective

en·cour·ag·ing in-ˈkər-i-jiŋ How to pronounce encouraging (audio)

-ˈkə-ri-,

en-

: giving hope or promise

encouraging news

encouragingly

in-ˈkər-i-jiŋ-lē How to pronounce encouraging (audio)

-ˈkə-ri-

en-

adverb

Example Sentences

We've just heard some encouraging news. encouraging signs that the economy is improving

Recent Examples on the Web Offensive line bounces back After a particularly rough practice Wednesday trying to protect Herbert, the Chargers’ offensive front rebounded with a more encouraging performance Thursday.

Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022 Other company earnings reports were more encouraging.

CBS News, 29 July 2022 Other company earnings reports were more encouraging.

Alex Veiga, ajc, 29 July 2022 In 2020 and 2021, shootings and murders increased, but the first six months of 2022 have brought more encouraging trends.

Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 Mbise also drew attention to more encouraging data points, including the fact that the suicide rate for Alaska’s Black community is lower than rates for other races.

Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022 His early production, then, is only more encouraging.

Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2022 In the world of business travel, things are much more encouraging with corporate travel booming.

Amiad Solomon, Forbes, 10 June 2022 For Molyneux, this was among the more encouraging results.

The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022 See More

encouraging 1 of 2

adjective

as in promising

having qualities which inspire hope encouraging signs that the economy is improving

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

promising
optimistic
bright
hopeful
heartening
upbeat
likely
reassuring
positive
propitious
fair
rosy
auspicious
cheering
golden
comforting
favorable
roseate
good
soothing
confident
assured
doubtless
sure
decisive
unhesitating
rose-colored
bullish
beamish
eupeptic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
desperate
unlikely
depressing
dark
pessimistic
hopeless
dismal
gloomy
bleak
disheartening
unpromising
inauspicious
dreary
doubtful
uncertain
negative
cheerless
dubious
unencouraging
downbeat
unfavorable
unpropitious
grim
comfortless
gray
bearish
miserable
grey
wretched
glum
funereal

as in comforting

making one feel good inside the encouraging story of a young girl who overcame great social and physical obstacles to become an outstanding athlete

Synonyms & Similar Words

comforting
rewarding
welcoming
inspiring
loving
gratifying
fulfilling
cheering
satisfying
heartening
warm
uplifting
heartwarming
moving
affecting
pleasing
gladdening
touching
elevating
sympathetic
kind
exciting
edifying
inspiriting
stimulating
invigorating
poignant
thrilling
stirring
exhilarating
kindly
enlivening
rousing
animating
pleasurable
tender

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
demoralizing
depressing
disheartening
dispiriting
disappointing
saddening
heartbreaking
disturbing
cheerless
displeasing
upsetting
dissatisfying
disconcerting
dismaying
distressing
discomforting
heartrending
unpleasant
unkind
unfriendly
disgruntling
cold
unloving
unfeeling

as in favorable

pointing toward a happy outcome we're off to an encouraging start on this project

Synonyms & Similar Words

promising
favorable
hopeful
happy
bright
heartening
beneficial
lucky
golden
propitious
fortunate
auspicious
profitable
advantageous
prosperous
fortuitous
providential
salutary

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
unfavorable
hopeless
disheartening
unpromising
unfortunate
dim
inauspicious
unhappy
unpropitious
unlucky
disastrous
fatal
catastrophic
threatening
ruinous
futureless
calamitous
ill
ominous
sinister
dark
menacing
gloomy
dire
portentous
foreboding
baleful
minatory
direful
doomy
ill-boding

encouraging

2 of 2

verb

present participle of encourage

as in inspiring

to fill with courage or strength of purpose a pep talk that encouraged the team to get out there and win

Synonyms & Similar Words

inspiring
stimulating
reinforcing
heartening
emboldening
inspiriting
reassuring
provoking
strengthening
invigorating
enforcing
enlivening
assuring
bearing up
steeling
animating
exciting
rallying
buoying (up)
energizing
chirking (up)
cheering (up)
bucking up
stirring
galvanizing
reenforcing
fortifying
boosting
quickening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
daunting
disheartening
undermining
depressing
demoralizing
weakening
intimidating
dispiriting
debilitating
saddening
hamstringing
enfeebling
psyching (out)

as in promoting

to help the growth or development of asserted that the government should be encouraging small businesses, not smothering them with regulations

Synonyms & Similar Words

promoting
nurturing
fostering
cultivating
furthering
advancing
forwarding
assisting
supporting
nourishing
advocating
incubating
endorsing
aiding
championing
patronizing
nursing
funding
upholding
backing
subsidizing
financing
underwriting
abetting
advertising
indorsing
publicizing
boosting
staking
touting
endowing
plugging
working (for)
agitating (for)
campaigning (for)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
preventing
hindering
inhibiting
prohibiting
forbidding
frustrating
opposing
banning
enjoining
proscribing
fighting
combating
outlawing
barring
countering
combatting
interdicting
suppressing
checking
stifling
battling
contending (with)
repressing
squelching
subduing
arresting
halting
retarding
squashing
impeding
obstructing
interfering (with)
hobbling
encumbering
snuffing (out)
shackling
manacling
fettering

as in provoking

to rouse to strong feeling or action the movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter

Synonyms & Similar Words

provoking
stimulating
inspiring
motivating
stirring
moving
exciting
arousing
inciting
sparking
inducing
instigating
driving
triggering
piquing
motiving
impassioning
bothering
energizing
activating
igniting
galvanizing
angering
fanning
enraging
revving (up)
vitalizing
firing (up)
animating
abetting
getting
inflaming
quickening
upsetting
taunting
teasing
fomenting
kindling
building a fire under
raising
maddening
annoying
setting off
irritating
exasperating
aggravating
jeering
fermenting
enflaming
pumping up
vexing
galling
keying (up)
whipping (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

calming
soothing
subduing
placating
appeasing
tranquilizing
pacifying
mollifying
tranquillizing

as in urging

to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action the pastor continues to encourage the couple to work out their problems in hopes of saving their marriage

Synonyms & Similar Words

urging
nudging
spurring
prompting
exhorting
pushing
coaxing
goading
prodding
propelling
provoking
stimulating
driving
imploring
pressing
beseeching
pressuring
cajoling
hurrying
rushing
hustling
egging (on)
inciting
importuning
wheedling
instigating
adjuring
nagging
fomenting
needling
blandishing
high-pressuring
soft-soaping
stirring (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

discouraging
deterring
dissuading
checking
curbing
restraining
inhibiting
constraining
braking
holding back

单词	encouraging
释义	encouraging adjective en·cour·ag·ing in-ˈkər-i-jiŋ -ˈkə-ri-, en- : giving hope or promise encouraging news encouragingly in-ˈkər-i-jiŋ-lē -ˈkə-ri- en- adverb Synonyms auspicious bright fair golden heartening hopeful likely optimistic promising propitious rose-colored roseate rosy upbeat See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences We've just heard some encouraging news. encouraging signs that the economy is improving Recent Examples on the Web Offensive line bounces back After a particularly rough practice Wednesday trying to protect Herbert, the Chargers’ offensive front rebounded with a more encouraging performance Thursday. Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022 Other company earnings reports were more encouraging. CBS News, 29 July 2022 Other company earnings reports were more encouraging. Alex Veiga, ajc, 29 July 2022 In 2020 and 2021, shootings and murders increased, but the first six months of 2022 have brought more encouraging trends. Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022 Mbise also drew attention to more encouraging data points, including the fact that the suicide rate for Alaska’s Black community is lower than rates for other races. Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2022 His early production, then, is only more encouraging. Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 21 June 2022 In the world of business travel, things are much more encouraging with corporate travel booming. Amiad Solomon, Forbes, 10 June 2022 For Molyneux, this was among the more encouraging results. The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022 See More Word History First Known Use 1593, in the meaning defined above encouraging 1 of 2 adjective 1 as in promising having qualities which inspire hope encouraging signs that the economy is improving Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance promising optimistic bright hopeful heartening upbeat likely reassuring positive propitious fair rosy auspicious cheering golden comforting favorable roseate good soothing confident assured doubtless sure decisive unhesitating rose-colored bullish beamish eupeptic Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging desperate unlikely depressing dark pessimistic hopeless dismal gloomy bleak disheartening unpromising inauspicious dreary doubtful uncertain negative cheerless dubious unencouraging downbeat unfavorable unpropitious grim comfortless gray bearish miserable grey wretched glum funereal See More 2 as in comforting making one feel good inside the encouraging story of a young girl who overcame great social and physical obstacles to become an outstanding athlete Synonyms & Similar Words comforting rewarding welcoming inspiring loving gratifying fulfilling cheering satisfying heartening warm uplifting heartwarming moving affecting pleasing gladdening touching elevating sympathetic kind exciting edifying inspiriting stimulating invigorating poignant thrilling stirring exhilarating kindly enlivening rousing animating pleasurable tender Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging demoralizing depressing disheartening dispiriting disappointing saddening heartbreaking disturbing cheerless displeasing upsetting dissatisfying disconcerting dismaying distressing discomforting heartrending unpleasant unkind unfriendly disgruntling cold unloving unfeeling See More 3 as in favorable pointing toward a happy outcome we're off to an encouraging start on this project Synonyms & Similar Words promising favorable hopeful happy bright heartening beneficial lucky golden propitious fortunate auspicious profitable advantageous prosperous fortuitous providential salutary Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging unfavorable hopeless disheartening unpromising unfortunate dim inauspicious unhappy unpropitious unlucky disastrous fatal catastrophic threatening ruinous futureless calamitous ill ominous sinister dark menacing gloomy dire portentous foreboding baleful minatory direful doomy ill-boding See More encouraging 2 of 2 verb present participle of encourage 1 as in inspiring to fill with courage or strength of purpose a pep talk that encouraged the team to get out there and win Synonyms & Similar Words inspiring stimulating reinforcing heartening emboldening inspiriting reassuring provoking strengthening invigorating enforcing enlivening assuring bearing up steeling animating exciting rallying buoying (up) energizing chirking (up) cheering (up) bucking up stirring galvanizing reenforcing fortifying boosting quickening Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging daunting disheartening undermining depressing demoralizing weakening intimidating dispiriting debilitating saddening hamstringing enfeebling psyching (out) See More 2 as in promoting to help the growth or development of asserted that the government should be encouraging small businesses, not smothering them with regulations Synonyms & Similar Words promoting nurturing fostering cultivating furthering advancing forwarding assisting supporting nourishing advocating incubating endorsing aiding championing patronizing nursing funding upholding backing subsidizing financing underwriting abetting advertising indorsing publicizing boosting staking touting endowing plugging working (for) agitating (for) campaigning (for) Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging preventing hindering inhibiting prohibiting forbidding frustrating opposing banning enjoining proscribing fighting combating outlawing barring countering combatting interdicting suppressing checking stifling battling contending (with) repressing squelching subduing arresting halting retarding squashing impeding obstructing interfering (with) hobbling encumbering snuffing (out) shackling manacling fettering See More 3 as in provoking to rouse to strong feeling or action the movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter Synonyms & Similar Words provoking stimulating inspiring motivating stirring moving exciting arousing inciting sparking inducing instigating driving triggering piquing motiving impassioning bothering energizing activating igniting galvanizing angering fanning enraging revving (up) vitalizing firing (up) animating abetting getting inflaming quickening upsetting taunting teasing fomenting kindling building a fire under raising maddening annoying setting off irritating exasperating aggravating jeering fermenting enflaming pumping up vexing galling keying (up) whipping (up) Antonyms & Near Antonyms calming soothing subduing placating appeasing tranquilizing pacifying mollifying tranquillizing See More 4 as in urging to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of action the pastor continues to encourage the couple to work out their problems in hopes of saving their marriage Synonyms & Similar Words urging nudging spurring prompting exhorting pushing coaxing goading prodding propelling provoking stimulating driving imploring pressing beseeching pressuring cajoling hurrying rushing hustling egging (on) inciting importuning wheedling instigating adjuring nagging fomenting needling blandishing high-pressuring soft-soaping stirring (up) Antonyms & Near Antonyms discouraging deterring dissuading checking curbing restraining inhibiting constraining braking holding back See More
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