Synonyms for encouraged
en·cour·aged

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1. bucked up(p), encouragedadjective

   inspired with confidence

   "felt bucked up by his success"

   Antonyms:
   displeased

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1. List of paraphrases for "encouraged":

   encourages, encourage, promoted, encouraging, heartened, fostered, invited, stimulated, urged, encouragement, spurred, emboldened, promote, animated, abetted, promotes, foster, guest, prompted, promoting

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1. Jackie Nesbitt:

   We are really encouraged, it shows they are competing at the right level and are competitive at that level.

2. Stacey Abrams:

   We have seen dramatic turnout among communities that typically are not at the top of mind for candidates. We have seen them be engaged, be encouraged and we have seen them turn out.

3. Bill Hennessy:

   I was never discouraged from anything, everything that I had done with the Proud Boys on and before January 6 led me to believe that what I was doing was either implicitly or overtly accepted and encouraged by the Proud Boys around me.

4. President Biden:

   I will admit to my Democratic friends I’m the guy who encouraged John to go home and run for office, for real, because I knew what incredible courage, intellect and conscience he had, we ran against each other, which I didn't like, on tickets for the highest office in the land. I was a candidate for vice president, he was the candidate for president. I never stopped admiring John. Never said a negative thing about him in my life, because I knew his honor, his courage, and his commitment.

5. Cyril Connolly:

   The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.