encouraging as an adjective: - 1
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encouraging
adjective
1 encouraging
Giving courage or confidence or hope.
Roget 858:
hoping
etc.
v.;
in hopes
etc.
n.;
hopeful,
confident;
secure
etc.
(certain)
484;
sanguine,
in good heart,
buoyed up,
buoyant,
elated,
flushed,
exultant,
enthusiastic;
heartsome†;
utopian.
unsuspecting,
unsuspicious;
fearless,
free from fear,
free from suspicion,
free from distrust,
free from despair,
exempt from fear,
exempt from suspicion,
exempt from distrust,
exempt from despair;
undespairing†,
self reliant.
probable,
on the high road to;
within sight of shore,
within sight of land;
promising,
propitious;
of promise,
full of promise;
of good omen;
auspicious,
de bon augure [Fr.];
reassuring;
encouraging,
cheering,
inspiriting,
looking up,
bright,
roseate,
couleur de rose [Fr.],
rose-colored.
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2 encouraging
Furnishing support and encouragement.
synonym: supporting.
Moby thesaurus: alluring, animating, assuring, auspicious, bright with promise, challenging, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, couleur de rose, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, favorable, full of promise, galvanic, galvanizing, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, inviting, joyful, likely, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, piquant, pregnant of good, promising, prompting, propitious, provocative, provoking, reassuring, relieving, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rousing, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, supportive, sympathetic ... show more.
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