Definition for Encouragement:

• The act of giving courage or confidence of success; incitement to action or to practice; that which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance.

Synonyms for Encouragement:

• interj.

  •yeah (interjection)
  • hurrah.

• n.

  •
  • admiration,
  • acclaim,
  • credit,
  • backing,
  • praise,
  • compliment,
  • regard,
  • recognition,
  • animating,
  • supporting,
  • cheering,
  • abetment,
  • urging,
  • helping,
  • heartening,
  • respect.
  •
  • confidence,
  • hope,
  • consolation,
  • stimulus,
  • incentive,
  • firmness,
  • cheer,
  • animation,
  • nourishment,
  • reward,
  • fortitude,
  • persuasion,
  • faith,
  • optimism,
  • promotion,
  • advance,
  • trust,
  • lift,
  • comfort,
  • inducement.
  •
  • stimulation,
  • inspiration.
  •
  • fillip,
  • cause,
  • push,
  • Stimulator,
  • impulse,
  • prod,
  • stimulant,
  • impetus,
  • spur.
  •advice (noun)
  • news,
  • advice,
  • message,
  • pointer,
  • cue,
  • advocacy,
  • information,
  • prompt,
  • monition,
  • hint,
  • briefing,
  • intelligence,
  • tip,
  • instruction,
  • direction,
  • clue,
  • caution,
  • suggestion,
  • guidance,
  • warning,
  • caveat,
  • recommendation.
  •aid (noun)
  • assistance,
  • aid,
  • facilitation,
  • avail,
  • motivation,
  • endowment,
  • service,
  • relief,
  • attendant,
  • sustenance,
  • benefit,
  • agency,
  • Mothering,
  • ministration,
  • help,
  • support.
  •authorization (noun)
  • sanction.
  •encouragement (noun)
  • boost.
  •help, support (noun)
  • assistance,
  • stimulus,
  • reward,
  • easement,
  • faith,
  • aid,
  • incentive,
  • enlivening,
  • incitement,
  • advocacy,
  • promotion,
  • inspiritment,
  • reassuring,
  • reassurance,
  • confidence,
  • urging,
  • cheer,
  • consolation,
  • stimulation,
  • supporting,
  • fortitude,
  • relief,
  • comfort,
  • firmness,
  • boost,
  • animation,
  • favor,
  • inspiration,
  • backing,
  • optimism,
  • advance,
  • hope,
  • trust.
  •motivation (noun)
  • impulsion.
  •patronage (noun)
  • guardianship.
  •pity (noun)
  • sympathy.
  •support (noun)
  • support,
  • backing.

• v.

  •hope (verb)
  • promise.
  •leave (verb)
  • permission.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • patronage,
  • participation,
  • stimulation,
  • Stimulator,
  • prompting.
  •
  • spur,
  • impetus,
  • nourishment,
  • inducement,
  • comfort,
  • invitation,
  • cheer,
  • stimulus,
  • pressure,
  • sympathy,
  • enticement,
  • stimulant,
  • consolation.
  •
  • fillip,
  • persuasion,
  • impulse.
  •
  • prod,
  • inspiration.
  •
  • push.
  •assistance
  • backing.
  •interest
  • behalf.
  •prompting
  • instigation.
  •spur
  • incentive.
  •yeah
  • hurrah.
  •Other relevant words:
  • flush,
  • inducement,
  • jog,
  • broadening,
  • push,
  • helping,
  • participation,
  • developing,
  • urging,
  • cheer,
  • mount,
  • percentage,
  • furtherance,
  • animation,
  • Exhorting,
  • regard,
  • innervation,
  • sympathy,
  • opportunity,
  • hurrah,
  • nudge,
  • bump,
  • AID AND COMFORT,
  • Bolstering,
  • pricking,
  • excitement,
  • solace,
  • cause,
  • enlargement,
  • provocation,
  • inspiration,
  • good turn,
  • development,
  • improving,
  • impetus,
  • evolution,
  • softness,
  • bourgeoning,
  • pull,
  • instance,
  • sweetening,
  • solacement,
  • cultivation,
  • prop,
  • Persuasibleness,
  • pressing,
  • stimulating,
  • payment,
  • countenance,
  • compliment,
  • championship,
  • growth,
  • firmness,
  • provocative,
  • cheering,
  • assurance,
  • pat on the back,
  • agitation,
  • attraction,
  • fillip,
  • momentum,
  • patronage,
  • urge,
  • upbringing,
  • drive,
  • interest,
  • favour,
  • advancement,
  • progress,
  • passion,
  • education,
  • guide,
  • nourishment,
  • confidence,
  • stirring,
  • persuasiveness,
  • favor,
  • recognition,
  • promotion,
  • breeding,
  • stimulus,
  • stimulation,
  • Inciting,
  • endorsement,
  • advance,
  • strengthening,
  • inflammation,
  • fuel,
  • enticement,
  • goad,
  • trust,
  • financing,
  • hope,
  • expansion,
  • attractiveness,
  • poke,
  • exhortation,
  • impulse,
  • Persuasibility,
  • temptation,
  • course,
  • acclaim,
  • carrot,
  • supporting,
  • credit,
  • comfort,
  • jab,
  • bait,
  • whet,
  • profit,
  • fortitude,
  • burgeoning,
  • prompting,
  • inspiriting,
  • protection,
  • admiration,
  • premium,
  • lift,
  • influence,
  • reinforcing,
  • amplification,
  • incitation,
  • spread,
  • press,
  • abetment,
  • spur,
  • rise,
  • sanctioning,
  • guardianship,
  • pep talk,
  • tingle,
  • sanction,
  • fostering,
  • dictate,
  • behalf,
  • hike,
  • persuasive,
  • permission,
  • impulsion,
  • reassurance,
  • thrill,
  • instigation,
  • susceptibility,
  • ammunition,
  • dig,
  • pressure,
  • consolation,
  • fosterage,
  • improvement,
  • enlivening,
  • Attractability,
  • condolence,
  • quickening,
  • promise,
  • delight,
  • Tantalization,
  • Boosting,
  • optimism,
  • stir,
  • bribe,
  • fomentation,
  • prodding,
  • aegis,
  • request,
  • come on,
  • sanguinity,
  • ripening,
  • stimulant,
  • break,
  • tutelage,
  • yeast,
  • persuasion,
  • extension,
  • start,
  • spurring,
  • auspices,
  • consideration,
  • incentive,
  • stimulative,
  • maturation,
  • pat,
  • prod,
  • Aiding,
  • cost increase,
  • incitement,
  • Emboldening,
  • animating,
  • encourage,
  • commendation,
  • solicitation,
  • backup,
  • beginning,
  • goodwill,
  • suasion,
  • invitation,
  • lure,
  • bringing up,
  • Nurturing,
  • elbow,
  • thrust,
  • fortifying,
  • Sustaining,
  • reward,
  • Abetting,
  • boost,
  • insistence,
  • approval,
  • reinforcement,
  • easement,
  • arousal,
  • Assisting,
  • reassuring,
  • Stimulator,
  • motive,
  • succour,
  • flattery,
  • starting point,
  • needling,
  • backing,
  • proposal,
  • lobbyism,
  • shove,
  • respect,
  • increase,
  • elevation,
  • sweetener,
  • faith,
  • counsel,
  • Promoting,
  • charity,
  • Impressibility,
  • chance,
  • euphoria,
  • inspiring,
  • goading,
  • sponsorship,
  • praise,
  • care,
  • get help,
  • inspiritment,
  • honeyed words,
  • heartening,
  • elation,
  • energy,
  • nurture,
  • shot,
  • Seconding.

Antonyms for Encouragement:

• n.

  • communication
    discouragement.
  • help, support
    hindrance, disbelief, doubt, discouragement, denunciation, distrust, annoyance, impediment, gloom, injury, deterrent, hurt, derision.
  • Other antonyms:
    disincentive.

Homophones for Encouragement:

• encroachment, engrossment, engorgement.

Hypernym for Encouragement:

• n.

  • communication
    fostering, instigation, furtherance, vote of confidence, prod, goading, cheering, advancement, provocation, urging, incitement, spur, goad, shouting, spurring, abetment, Abettal, promotion, fosterage, prodding.

Hyponym for Encouragement:

• n.

  • communication
    commendation, approval.
  • feeling
    hope.