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. Wade Henderson:

   He has a healthy understanding that voting is the language of democracy and if you don't vote, you don't count, his willingness to explore these issues and to engage them intellectually is encouraging.

2. Manager Dave Roberts:

   I think that its encouraging that the door remains open.

3. Gerhard Schwarz:

   The encouraging news is that it seems to be some stabilisation in the Chinese economy.

4. Tom Fitton:

   We should be encouraging more of these meetings, i know the liberal left is afraid to confront the arguments of their opponents and want to be able to talk to the government without anyone holding them to account, but we are not opposed to participating in them with the other groups.

5. Matthew Fullen:

   What we do talk about in our trainings with students as well as staff and faculty is that suicide is preventable and one of the ways that we prevent it is by encouraging students who are struggling with depression and anxiety to seek help early on.