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 | ||