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encouraging
en·cour·ag·ing E0128400 (ĕn-kûr′ə-jĭng, -kŭr′-)adj. Giving courage, confidence, or hope: encouraging news.
en·cour′ag·ing·ly adv.Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | encouraging - giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"reassuring - restoring confidence and relieving anxiety; "a very reassuring remark"helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful functionhopeful - having or manifesting hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"discouraging - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word" | | 2. | encouraging - furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"supportingsupportive - furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" |
encouragingadjective promising, good, bright, comforting, cheering, stimulating, reassuring, hopeful, satisfactory, cheerful, favourable, rosy, heartening, auspicious, propitious The results have not been very encouraging.
disappointing, depressing, discouraging, daunting, unfavourable, off-putting (informal), dispiriting, disheartening, unpropitiousencouragingadjectiveInspiring confidence or hope:cheering, heartening, hopeful, likely, promising.Translationsencourage (inˈkaridʒ) , ((American) -ˈkə:-) verb1. to give support, confidence or hope to. The general tried to encourage the troops: You should not encourage him in his extravagance; I felt encouraged by his praise. 鼓勵 鼓励2. to urge (a person) to do something. You must encourage him to try again. 敦促 鼓励enˈcouraging adjective 鼓舞人心的 鼓励的enˈcouragingly adverb 鼓舞人心地 鼓励地enˈcouragement nounwords of encouragement; He must be given every encouragement. 鼓勵 鼓励
the opposite of encourage is discourage. IdiomsSeeencourageencouraging
Synonyms for encouragingadj promisingSynonyms- promising
- good
- bright
- comforting
- cheering
- stimulating
- reassuring
- hopeful
- satisfactory
- cheerful
- favourable
- rosy
- heartening
- auspicious
- propitious
Antonyms- disappointing
- depressing
- discouraging
- daunting
- unfavourable
- off-putting
- dispiriting
- disheartening
- unpropitious
Synonyms for encouragingadj inspiring confidence or hopeSynonyms- cheering
- heartening
- hopeful
- likely
- promising
Synonyms for encouragingadj giving courage or confidence or hopeRelated WordsAntonymsadj furnishing support and encouragementSynonymsRelated Words |