encouraging
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encouraging
- /ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ UK
- /ɪnˈkɝɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/ US
adjective more encouraging · most encouraging
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Giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.
Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.
Similar: promising
- Supporting by giving encouragement: positively. Your encouraging words inspired me to persevere.
verb
- present participle and gerund of encourage
noun encouragings
- encouragement […] the thousand little ties of sympathy and mutual hopes and fears, comfortings and encouragings.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: heartening, inspiriting, lucky, propitious, favourable, auspicious, promotive, favorable, prosperous, supportive, supporting, exhortatory, exhortative, hortatory, hortative, rallying
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adj giving courage, confidence or hope
| Español | alentador, esperanzador, halagüeño |
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| Deutsch | ermutigend |
| Italiano | incoraggiante, rassicurante |
| Ελληνικά | παροτρυντικός parotryntikós |
| Русский | обнадёживающий obnadjóživajuščij, ободри́тельный obodrítelʹnyj, ободря́ющий obodrjájuščij |
adj supporting by giving encouragement
| Русский | ободря́ющий obodrjájuščij, подба́дривающий podbádrivajuščij |
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Talk about this word "encouraging." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/encouraging. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. encouraging. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/encouraging "encouraging." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/encouraging.Cite this
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title = {encouraging},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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