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. Kentucky State:

   Really, you're encouraging drug use.

2. Mario Tama/Getty Images Hatchett:

   That’s good news for a very strained and stressed system, but Images Senators probably need five, six or maybe 10 more years of this to really make a big dent in the situation there, but this is much more encouraging to see.

3. Stefan Worrall:

   Extreme volatility has been the order of the week and even an encouraging recovery in U.S. stocks overnight hasn't been met with much conviction, which reflects how investor sentiment seems to have turned, last year we saw more willingness to buy on dips and it's a key change that the market seems to view rallies with suspicion so far this year. The question is whether that suspicion runs shallow or deep.

4. Diane Warren:

   He believed in me so much he would take me to music publishers when I was 14 or 15, my mom would be saying, ‘ Why are you doing it ? Why are you encouraging her ? She ca n’t make a living off that. ’.

5. Border Protection Commissioner:

   With another stroke of a pen Biden is doubling down on his open border strategies, encouraging illegal migration, and creating the next crisis to reach our borders, within two weeks of this new administration our borders are less secure, our country less safe, and the mission of our front line personnel has become more dangerous.