English adjective: encouraging | |||
1. | encouraging giving courage or confidence or hope | ||
Samples | Encouraging advances in medical research. | ||
Similar | exhortative, exhortatory, heartening, hortative, hortatory, inspiriting, promotive, rallying | ||
See also | helpful, hopeful, reassuring | ||
Antonyms | discouraging | ||
2. | encouraging furnishing support and encouragement | ||
Samples | The anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher. | ||
Synonyms | supporting | ||
Similar | supportive | ||
Antonyms | unsupportive | ||