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encouragingadjective having qualities which inspire hopeencouraging signs that the economy is improving auspicious, bright, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched making one feel good insidethe encouraging story of a young girl who overcame great social and physical obstacles to become an outstanding athlete cheering, comforting, fulfilling, gladdening, gratifying, heartening, heartwarming, rewarding, satisfying affecting, inspiring, inspiriting, moving, poignant, stirring, touchingedifying, elevating, upliftingsympathetic, tenderkind, kindly, loving, warmanimating, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, invigorating, rousing, stimulating, thrillingpleasing, pleasurable, welcoming demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting cheerless, disappointing, disgruntling, displeasing, dissatisfying, heartbreaking, heartrending, saddeningdiscomforting, disconcerting, dismaying, distressing, disturbing, upsettingcold, unfeeling, unfriendly, unkind, unloving, unpleasant pointing toward a happy outcomewe're off to an encouraging start on this project auspicious, bright, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening encouragingverbpresent participle of encourageto fill with courage or strength of purposea pep talk that encouraged the team to get out there and win bearing up, bucking up, buoying (up), cheering (up), chirking (up), emboldening, heartening, inspiring, inspiriting, steeling animating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting demoralizing, depressing, saddeningdebilitating, enfeebling, hamstringing, undermining, weakeningintimidating, psyching (out) to help the growth or development ofasserted that the government should be encouraging small businesses, not smothering them with regulations advancing, cultivating, forwarding, fostering, furthering, incubating, nourishing, nursing, nurturing, promoting advocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), supporting, upholdingendowing, financing, funding, patronizing, staking, subsidizing, underwritingabetting, aiding, assistingadvertising, boosting, plugging, publicizing, toutingagitating (for), campaigning (for), working (for) discouraging, frustrating, hindering, inhibiting banning, barring, enjoining, forbidding, interdicting, outlawing, preventing, prohibiting, proscribingbattling, combating(or combatting), contending (with), countering, fighting, opposingrepressing, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressingarresting, checking, halting, retardingencumbering, fettering, hobbling, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling to rouse to strong feeling or actionthe movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter arousing, exciting, firing (up), impassioning, inciting, instigating, moving, piquing, provoking, revving (up), sparking, stimulating, stirring fanning, igniting, inflaming(also enflaming), kindling, triggeringactivating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizingabetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)angering, enraging, maddening, upsettingjeering, taunting, teasingaggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing building a fire under calming, soothing, subduing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)appeasing, mollifying, pacifying, placating to try to persuade (someone) through earnest appeals to follow a course of actionthe pastor continues to encourage the couple to work out their problems in hopes of saving their marriage egging (on), exhorting, goading, nudging, pressing, prodding, prompting, urging driving, propelling, spurring, stimulatinghurrying, hustling, pushing, rushingadjuring, beseeching, imploring, importuningblandishing, cajoling, coaxing, soft-soaping, wheedlinghigh-pressuring, nagging, needling, pressuringfomenting, inciting, instigating, provoking, stirring (up) deterring, discouraging, dissuadingbraking, checking, constraining, curbing, holding back, inhibiting, restraining in 1593 |