ENCOURAGING
| Pronunciation: | | enk'urijing
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| Matching Terms: | | encouragingly
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | auspicious, exhortative, exhortatory, favorable, favourable, heartening, hortative, hortatory, inspiriting, lucky, promotive, propitious, prosperous, rallying, supporting, supportive |
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| | Antonyms: | | discouraging | | |
| | See Also: | | helpful, hopeful, reassuring | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En*cour"a*ging\, a.
Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. --
{En*cour"a*ging*ly}, adv.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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