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. Lori Lightfoot:

   President Catanzara has time and again deliberately misled our police officers by lying about the requirements of the policy and falsely claiming that there will be no repercussions if officers are insubordinate and refuse to follow a City and Department directive or order, catanzara is encouraging an unlawful strike and work stoppage which carries the potential to undermine public safety and expose our residents to irreparable harm, particularly during an ongoing pandemic.

2. Davis Bertans each:

   It's encouraging to win the game with defense.

3. Monte Peterson:

   The news is encouraging, but a lot of us on the farm would like to hear some contracted sales that have been placed.

4. Elijah Cummings:

   We must also stop the hateful incendiary comments, we got to do it. Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior. It only creates more division among us and severely limits our ability to work together for the common good. As a country, we finally must say enough is enough. That we are done with the hateful rhetoric. That we are done with the mass shootings. That we are done with white supremacists, domestic terrorist, who terrorizing in our country and fighting against everything America stands for.

5. Rosie Orengo:

   He was always encouraging us in our marriages.