encouraging
1. giving courage or confidence or hope - encouraging advances in medical research • Ant: discouraging • Similar to: exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory, heartening, inspiriting, promotive, rallying • See Also: helpful, hopeful, reassuring 2. furnishing support and encouragement - the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher • Syn: supporting • Similar to: supportive
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