encouraging

Speech parts

1. encouraging - Noun

2. encouraging - Adjective

3. encouraging - Verb

5. encouraging - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Encourage

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

good positive supporting favorable helpful inspiring stimulating hopeful uplifting propitious promising cheering reassuring heartening emboldening
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Antonyms

discouraging feller gray eldritch lonesome deathly
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Phrases with the word

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Examples

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. Romeo LeBlanc

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. Terry Pratchett

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. Nikos Kazantzakis

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. Greg Walden

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him. George Bernard Shaw

Close letter words and terms

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