Usually means: Promoting confidence and support positively.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Encouraging:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. encouraging: Merriam-Webster
  2. encouraging: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encouraging: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encouraging: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encouraging: Vocabulary.com
  6. Encouraging, encouraging: Wordnik
  7. encouraging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. encouraging: Wiktionary
  9. encouraging: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. encouraging: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Encouraging, encouraging: Dictionary.com
  12. encouraging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Encouraging: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. encouraging: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. encouraging: Rhymezone
  16. encouraging: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. encouraging: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. encouraging: FreeDictionary.org
  19. encouraging: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. encouraging: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. encouraging: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encouraging: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encouraging: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encouraging)

▸ adjective:  Giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.
▸ adjective:  Supporting by giving encouragement: positively.
▸ noun:  encouragement

Similar:
exhortative, hortative, exhortatory, inspiriting, heartening, hortatory, favourable, auspicious, propitious, favorable, more...

Opposite:
discouraging, disheartening, demoralizing, deterring, dispiriting

Types:
motivating, inspiring, uplifting, empowering, affirming, positive, reassuring, heartening, more...

Phrases:
a language encouraging program hierarchy, Encouraging Words, encouraging word, not encouraging, an encouraging stimulus, more...

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    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     mint green,     coral,     peach, more...



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Similar:
exhortative, hortative, exhortatory, inspiriting, heartening, hortatory, favourable, auspicious, propitious, favorable, more...

Opposite:
discouraging, disheartening, demoralizing, deterring, dispiriting

Types:
motivating, inspiring, uplifting, empowering, affirming, positive, reassuring, heartening, more...

Phrases:
a language encouraging program hierarchy, Encouraging Words, encouraging word, not encouraging, an encouraging stimulus, encouraging and interacting, condoning encouraging, encouraging people to learn, more...

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     mint green,     coral,     peach, more...



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