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单词 encouraging
例句 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 encourage

to 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

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