Definition for Encouraging:

• Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Synonyms for Encouraging:

• adj.

  •beneficial (adjective)
  • benignant.
  •bright (adjective)
  • palmy,
  • reassuring,
  • supportive,
  • promising.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •promising (adjective)
  • rose-colored,
  • golden,
  • full of promise,
  • roseate,
  • utopian.

• n.

  •
  • good,
  • joyous,
  • uplifting,
  • joyful,
  • heartwarming,
  • exhilarating,
  • cheerful.
  •
  • likely.
  •encouraging (noun)
  • exhortative,
  • promotive,
  • hortative,
  • inspiriting,
  • hortatory,
  • auspicious,
  • rallying,
  • prosperous,
  • exhortatory,
  • favourable,
  • lucky.

• v.

  •advising (verb)
  • counseling,
  • warning,
  • guiding,
  • Recommending,
  • tipping off,
  • Suggesting,
  • directing,
  • admonishing,
  • Advocating,
  • Consulting,
  • cueing,
  • informing,
  • briefing,
  • Conferring,
  • Cautioning,
  • Notifying,
  • prompting,
  • Advising,
  • Instructing.
  •aiding (verb)
  • ministering,
  • Assisting,
  • Abetting,
  • attending,
  • serving,
  • supporting,
  • Aiding,
  • Endowing,
  • Mothering,
  • motivating,
  • tending,
  • fostering,
  • helping,
  • Sustaining,
  • Relieving,
  • benefiting,
  • funding,
  • Facilitating.
  •cheering (verb)
  • enlivening,
  • cheering,
  • pleasing,
  • comforting,
  • Brightening,
  • heartening,
  • Gladdening,
  • lightening,
  • consoling.
  •facilitating (verb)
  • easing,
  • advancing,
  • Promoting,
  • Expediting,
  • Simplifying.
  •motivating (verb)
  • driving,
  • jostling,
  • Forcing,
  • jogging,
  • pitching,
  • Flinging,
  • striking,
  • hurling,
  • slinging,
  • shooting,
  • jolting,
  • knocking,
  • propelling,
  • Fomenting,
  • impelling,
  • firing,
  • pushing,
  • prodding,
  • goading,
  • launching,
  • hurtling,
  • Lobbing,
  • catapulting,
  • fermenting,
  • urging,
  • thrusting,
  • Magnetizing,
  • provoking,
  • jerking,
  • Ramming,
  • Punching,
  • inducing,
  • hastening,
  • poking,
  • Nudging,
  • Throwing,
  • energizing,
  • Shoving,
  • enticing,
  • heaving,
  • stimulating,
  • Instigating,
  • moving,
  • Bumping,
  • triggering.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • optimistic.
  •Other relevant words:
  • convenient,
  • probable,
  • patronize,
  • easy,
  • promote,
  • Light-hearted,
  • urge,
  • good news,
  • stimulative,
  • galvanizing,
  • become,
  • exalt,
  • induce,
  • cause,
  • approve,
  • blithe,
  • attract,
  • forwarding,
  • fortify,
  • constructive,
  • stimulant,
  • strengthening,
  • exciting,
  • roaring,
  • ardent,
  • confirming,
  • Nurturing,
  • prosperity,
  • useful,
  • Seconding,
  • provocative,
  • favoring,
  • incitement,
  • stimulus,
  • providential,
  • buoyant,
  • confident,
  • Cultivating,
  • invigorating,
  • mirthful,
  • friendly,
  • advance,
  • comfort,
  • merry,
  • up,
  • facultative,
  • Commendatory,
  • accelerate,
  • lighthearted,
  • fetch,
  • impetus,
  • positive,
  • instigate,
  • irritation,
  • understanding,
  • fitting,
  • pulse,
  • Progressing,
  • thriving,
  • affecting,
  • attain,
  • Arousing,
  • aggravation,
  • serendipitous,
  • affirmative,
  • Hiking,
  • incentive,
  • acquire,
  • tempt,
  • zealous,
  • accommodative,
  • quicken,
  • sunny,
  • momentum,
  • catalyst,
  • nourishing,
  • displeasure,
  • beneficial,
  • attraction,
  • exhortation,
  • get,
  • causing,
  • jolly,
  • catch,
  • commotion,
  • eager,
  • upgrading,
  • contributing,
  • arouse,
  • accommodating,
  • glad,
  • anger,
  • facilitative,
  • lightsome,
  • hasten,
  • successful,
  • touching,
  • fortifying,
  • animation,
  • motive,
  • animating,
  • Condolatory,
  • emotion,
  • preservative,
  • impulsion,
  • gain,
  • responsive,
  • advertising,
  • invigorate,
  • auxiliary,
  • rouse,
  • tonic,
  • stir,
  • rewarding,
  • instigation,
  • Emboldening,
  • inspiration,
  • helpful,
  • suitable,
  • agitate,
  • timely,
  • Countenancing,
  • stirring,
  • Boosting,
  • excitement,
  • piquant,
  • Furthering,
  • excite,
  • hearten,
  • cheery,
  • sanguine,
  • satisfying,
  • earn,
  • En rapport,
  • agreeable,
  • inspire,
  • cherishing,
  • incitation,
  • inducement,
  • galvanic,
  • Gaining,
  • halcyon,
  • Spiriting,
  • conspire,
  • life,
  • Promoted,
  • alluring,
  • assuring,
  • Inciting,
  • encouragingly,
  • congenial,
  • opportune,
  • encourage,
  • excitation,
  • promotion,
  • pleasant,
  • jocund,
  • appropriate,
  • spurring,
  • uphold,
  • fair,
  • impulse,
  • furtherance,
  • abet,
  • flourishing,
  • backing,
  • Applauding,
  • like-minded,
  • stimulate,
  • comfortable,
  • advertizing,
  • blithesome,
  • generate,
  • goad,
  • condolent,
  • Elevating,
  • Persuading,
  • yes,
  • enthusiastic,
  • warming,
  • sympathetic,
  • laudatory,
  • advantageous,
  • hospitable,
  • happy,
  • Exhorting,
  • reinforcing,
  • Condoling,
  • challenging,
  • fillip,
  • rousing,
  • incite,
  • animate,
  • bullish,
  • encouragement,
  • provoke,
  • exasperation.

Paraphrases for Encouraging:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    encourage, heartening.
  • Proper noun, singular
    encourage.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    encourage.
  • Adverb
    encourage.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    heartening.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inspiring, comforting, encourages, encouraged, positive, rewarding, motivating, fostering, pleasing, Promoting, challenging, discouraging, thought-provoking, favourable, auspicious, exhilarating, promote, contributing, Enhancing, promotion, satisfactory, satisfying, disappointing, motivational, up-and-coming, commendable, beneficial, amphetamine-type, incentivise, rosy, delightful, constructive, enthusiastic, further, attractive, good, bright, courageous, interesting, accelerating.
  • Proper noun, singular
    encourages, encouraged, Opportunities, fuels, fostering, Promoting, Les, promote, Enhancing, promotion, promotions.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    encourages, fostering, Promoting, promote, Enhancing, promotion, awareness-raising, Favouring.
  • Adverb
    encourages.
  • Verb, past tense
    Urged, Nurtured, helping, started, fostered, fostering, Promoting, promote, foster, stimulating.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Creating, Generating, leveraging, ensuring, Mainstreaming, Arousing, Propagating, Bolstering, Introducing, deepening, Educating, Sustaining, arguing, Suggesting, bring, bringing, modernization, Cultivating, incentivising, Recommending, actively, Fomenting, triggering, worsening, affecting, inducing, galvanizing, favoring, preaching, sparking, benefiting, pushing, reminding, causing, spurring, Persuading, propelling, convincing, Pledging, Instigated, Instigating, inviting, informing, Recruiting, helping, cheering, catering, enlisting, Initiating, reviving, advertising, Addressing, prompting, Advising, expanding, spearhead, spearheading, instilling, L, Proposing, embracing, pursuing, Allowing, Gaining, catalyzing, leading, Mobilizing, nourishing, emphasizing, Aiming, focusing, pressing, Achieving, incurring, targeting, resulting, upgrading, prioritizing, retaining, Subserving, bevordering, Eliciting, welcoming, preserving, Forcing, investing, launching, Permitting, being, undertaking, fueling, Involving, Securing, Fanning, directing, seeking, Influencing, sensitizing, marketing, offering, paving, Providing, growing, stressing, Carrying, Obtaining, giving, stirring, feeding, serving, coming, demanding, Delivering, Requiring, Maintaining, mobilising, Preparing, Abetting, working, promising, Soliciting, counselling, Prescribing, Hiring, animating, binding, unleashing, moving, funding, Aiding, easing, scaling, policy, drawing, calls, starting, den, powering, seeing, Requesting, requests, letting, filing, going, taking, keeping, hooking, Claiming, inspiring, getting, Doing, making, comforting, positive, rewarding, motivating, fostering, Promoting, challenging, discouraging, foster, contributing, Enhancing, promotion, satisfying, Favouring, accelerating.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    promising, reassuring, uplifting, hopeful, refreshing, supportive, encouragement, exciting, conducive, welcome, incite, optimistic, upbeat, foster, stimulating.
  • Proper noun, singular
    encouragement, foster, stimulating.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    encouragement, stimulating.
  • Adverb
    encouragement.
  • Verb, past tense
    supported.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    reinforcing, enticing, Nurtured, Inciting, sponsoring, Assisting, Establishing, Committing, reassuring, pleasing, stimulating.

Antonyms for Encouraging:

• adj.

  • all
    discouraging.
  • bright
    hopeless, unpromising.
  • Other antonyms:
    unkind, saddening, dubious, negative, threatening, futureless, wretched, grim, desperate, unlikely, unloving, ruinous, disappointing, upsetting, unpleasant, unfavorable, disconcerting, doubtful, unfriendly, unhappy, unpropitious, dismaying, disturbing, Dissatisfying, dim, unfeeling, displeasing, uncertain.

Homophones for Encouraging:

• encroaching, engrossing.