ENCOURAGING
Dictionary entry overview: What does encouraging mean?
• ENCOURAGING (adjective)
The adjective ENCOURAGING has 2 senses:
1. giving courage or confidence or hope
2. furnishing support and encouragement
Familiarity information: ENCOURAGING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ENCOURAGING (adjective)
Meaning:
Giving courage or confidence or hope
Context example:
encouraging advances in medical research
Similar:
exhortative; exhortatory; hortative; hortatory (giving strong encouragement)
heartening; inspiriting (cheerfully encouraging)
promotive (tending to further or encourage)
rallying (rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort)
Also:
reassuring (restoring confidence and relieving anxiety)
helpful (providing assistance or serving a useful function)
hopeful (having or manifesting or inspiring hope)
Antonym:
discouraging (depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action)
Meaning:
Furnishing support and encouragement
Synonyms:
supporting; encouraging
Context example:
the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher
Similar:
supportive (furnishing support or assistance)
"Liquor before beer and you're in the clear. Beer before liquor and you'll never be sicker." (English proverb)
"One man's medicine is another man's poison." (Latin proverb)
"For every glance behind us, we have to look twice to the future." (Arabic proverb)
"Who seeds wind, shall harvest storm." (Dutch proverb)
