| 单词 | encouraging |
| 释义 | encouraging (once / 451 pages) adj Something that's encouraging makes you feel better — more hopeful or confidant. A good theater director knows how to give her actors encouraging advice before they go on stage. When someone you know needs extra help or support, a friendly letter or phone call can be encouraging, and if you're being treated for an illness, an encouraging word from your doctor will bring you a lot of relief. Encouraging test results are good ones — they deliver good news. The verb encourage is at the heart of encouraging, from the Old French encoragier, "make strong or hearten." WORD FAMILYencouraging: encouragingly, unencouraging+/courage: courageous, courages, encourage/courageous: courageously, courageousness/encourage: encouraged, encouragement, encourages, encouraging/encouragement: encouragements/unencouraging: unencouragingly USAGE EXAMPLESThe goal is to promote quality and contain costs by encouraging doctors, hospitals and rehab centers to coordinate care. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “We got whooped in a lot of areas. I did think we finished toward the end there, and that was encouraging.” Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “We didn’t play perfect but we played well. It’s encouraging,” he said. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj giving courage or confidence or hope encouraging advances in medical research Syn|Ant reassuring restoring confidence and relieving anxiety exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatorygiving strong encouragement heartening, inspiritingcheerfully encouraging promotivetending to further or encourage rallyingrousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort helpfulproviding assistance or serving a useful function hopefulhaving or manifesting hope discouraging depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action daunting, intimidatingdiscouraging through fear demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening, dispiritingdestructive of morale and self-reliance frustratingdiscouraging by hindering unencouragingnot encouraging unhelpfulproviding no assistance hopelesswithout hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success dissuasivedeterring from action 2adj furnishing support and encouragement Syn supporting supportive furnishing support or assistance |
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