Meaning | Giving courage or confidence / confidence or hope. |
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Example | "encouraging advances in medical research" |
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Narrower | exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory | Giving strong encouragement |
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heartening, inspiriting | cheerfully encouraging |
promotive | tending to further / further or encourage |
rallying | rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort |
See also | helpful | Providing assistance or serving a useful function |
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hopeful | Having or manifesting hope |
reassuring | restoring confidence / confidence and relieving anxiety |
Opposite | discouraging | depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action |
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Spanish | alentador, esperanzador |
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Adverbs | encouragingly | in an encouraging manner |
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