About The Word Encouraging

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Encouraging

Encouraging Meaning & Definition
Encouraging Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Encouraging?

[adj] tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision"
[adj] giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research"
[adj] furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Encouraging: auspicious | exhortative | exhortatory | favorable | favourable | heartening | hortative | hortatory | inspiriting | lucky | promotive | propitious | prosperous | rallying | supporting | supportive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Encouraging: alluring | animating | assuring | auspicious | bright with promise | challenging | cheerful | cheering | cheery | comforting | condolatory | condolent | condoling | consolatory | consoling | couleur de rose | energizing | enlivening | exciting | exhilarating | favorable | full of promise | galvanic | galvanizing | glad | gladdening | heartening | heart-warming | hospitable | inspiring | inspiriting | invigorating | inviting | joyful | likely | looking up | of good comfort | of promise | piquant | pregnant of good | promising | prompting | propitious | provocative | provoking | reassuring | relieving | roseate | rose-colored | rosy | rousing | stimulant | stimulating | stimulative | stirring | supportive | sympathetic

See Also | helpful | hopeful | reassuring

Encouraging In Webster's Dictionary

\En*cour"a*ging\, a. Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- {En*cour"a*ging*ly}, adv.

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