Synonyms for Encouraging:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • encouraging.
  •beneficial (adjective)
  • benignant.
  •benign (adjective)
  • most smiling,
  • more smiling,
  • most dexter,
  • more dexter.
  •bright (adjective)
  • reassuring,
  • promising,
  • palmiest,
  • supportive,
  • palmy.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •comforting (adjective)
  • more upholding,
  • more relieving,
  • most reassuring,
  • most heart-warming,
  • more inspiriting,
  • more warming,
  • more abating,
  • re-freshing,
  • heart warming,
  • more analeptic,
  • most abating,
  • most restoring,
  • most health giving,
  • more alleviating,
  • re-assuring,
  • most relieving,
  • more revitalizing,
  • re vivifying,
  • most allaying,
  • more mitigating,
  • more sustaining,
  • most consolatory,
  • more remedying,
  • most warming,
  • more tranquilizing,
  • most heart warming,
  • re-vitalizing,
  • most lightening,
  • more lightening,
  • re vitalizing,
  • most alleviating,
  • more revivifying,
  • most analeptic,
  • in spiriting,
  • more consoling,
  • up-holding,
  • more restoring,
  • more allaying,
  • re-vivifying,
  • re storing,
  • most healthgiving,
  • most revitalizing,
  • freeingest,
  • most upholding,
  • most solacing,
  • most succoring,
  • more assuaging,
  • more reassuring,
  • more consolatory,
  • healthgiving,
  • most inspiriting,
  • most health-giving,
  • more heart-warming,
  • re assuring,
  • more healthgiving,
  • most tranquilizing,
  • more succoring,
  • re-storing,
  • more health giving,
  • most remedying,
  • most sustaining,
  • re freshing,
  • health giving,
  • freeing,
  • up holding,
  • more heart warming,
  • most assuaging,
  • most consoling,
  • most revivifying,
  • freeinger,
  • in-spiriting,
  • more solacing,
  • more health-giving,
  • most mitigating.
  •favorable (adjective)
  • most well disposed,
  • more toward,
  • most commending,
  • more well-intentioned,
  • pre disposed,
  • more convenient,
  • most pleasureful,
  • most well intentioned,
  • more praiseful,
  • more supportive,
  • full of promise,
  • more well-disposed,
  • more well disposed,
  • pre-disposed,
  • more assenting,
  • more welldisposed,
  • more pleasureful,
  • most welldisposed,
  • more commending,
  • most well-intentioned,
  • most recommendatory,
  • more recommendatory,
  • re-commendatory,
  • most toward,
  • welltimed,
  • well intentioned,
  • more wellintentioned,
  • re commendatory,
  • most approbative,
  • more understanding,
  • most assenting,
  • under-standing,
  • most well-disposed,
  • most wellintentioned,
  • wellintentioned,
  • full promise,
  • well disposed,
  • most praiseful,
  • welldisposed,
  • under standing,
  • more approbative,
  • more well intentioned.
  •fortunate (adjective)
  • born with a silver spoon,
  • in the gravy,
  • sunny side,
  • in luck,
  • get a break,
  • more fortunate,
  • healthy.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • promiseful.
  •inspiring (adjective)
  • more exalting,
  • in spiring,
  • most inspirational,
  • more motivating,
  • most motivating,
  • in-spiring,
  • more inspirational,
  • most exalting.
  •inviting (adjective)
  • pro-vocative,
  • most winsome,
  • more beguiling,
  • be witching,
  • de-lightful,
  • de lightful,
  • pro vocative,
  • most beguiling,
  • be-witching,
  • magnetic.
  •promising (adjective)
  • rose-colored,
  • golden,
  • utopian,
  • roseate,
  • up-and-coming.
  •propitious (adjective)
  • more favoring,
  • most favoring.
  •rosy (adjective)
  • rose colored,
  • rosecolored.
  •sympathetic (adjective)
  • open minded,
  • most approving,
  • openminded,
  • having heart,
  • more approving,
  • likeminded,
  • most simpatico,
  • more simpatico,
  • like minded,
  • having a heart.
  •upbeat (adjective)
  • up-beat,
  • up beat.
  •willing (adjective)
  • well-disposed to or toward.

• n.

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

• 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:

  •
  • coming,
  • 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.