Synonyms for encouraging
en·cour·ag·ing

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1. encouragingadjective

   giving courage or confidence or hope

   "encouraging advances in medical research"

   Synonyms:
   supporting

   Antonyms:
   disheartening, dispiriting, demoralizing, unencouraging, daunting, discouraging, frustrating, unsupportive, intimidating, demoralising

2. encouraging, supportingadjective

   furnishing support and encouragement

   "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"

   Synonyms:
   load-bearing(a), supporting(a), supporting

   Antonyms:
   daunting, demoralizing, frustrating, unencouraging, demoralising, dispiriting, disheartening, intimidating, discouraging, unsupportive

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1. helpfuladjective

   they can encourage you which is helpful

   manuel was very helpful during our studies.

   Submitted by dottykay10 on May 17, 2022  

2. inspiring

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2020  

3. paregoric

   assuaging pain

   her words are really paregoric.

   Submitted by anonymous on December 30, 2019  

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1. encouragingadjective

   Synonyms:
   reassuring, inspiriting, cheering, assuring

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1. List of paraphrases for "encouraging":

   encourage, heartening, encouraged, encourages, encouragement, promoting, promising, fostering, promote, gratifying, stimulating, foster, inspiring, hopeful, promotion, reassuring, positive, incentive

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1. Diane Hoffman:

   I thought they were inspiring and they were for me personally encouraging, for my family. I need to put in more effort and to remember love is the base of everything.

2. Alex Beckett:

   Disposable incomes have rocketed in China, enabling consumers to splash out on so-called luxury non-essentials like ice cream. More people can now afford to buy a fridge-freezer for their home - especially out in rural areas – encouraging more people to take ice cream home to eat and share, rather than just eat it on-the-go.

3. James Cakmak:

   It's definitely encouraging to see aggregate paid clicks accelerate again this quarter,.

4. Chessy Prout:

   He is being looked at very closely now, we have seen a number of the Senate staffers say, ‘We are taking this very seriously. This is something that I will personally speak to the senator about.’ We take that as very encouraging language.

5. Dimitris Kiosses:

   The findings of the study are encouraging that problem-solving therapy may be beneficial as add on to outpatient rehabilitation, nevertheless, additional research is needed to better understand the discrepancies of the results.