Encouraging

Definition: Encouraging

Encouraging

Adjective

1. Giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research".

2. Furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher".

3. Tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "encouraging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Encouraging

Hope

Probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored.

Crosswords: Encouraging

Surely you're not encouraging me to talk shop (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.)

It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow (Hello, Dolly!; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Michael Stewart)

She was trying to keep those fanatics from encouraging you into making a foolish decision (A Distant Thunder; writing credit: Russell S. Doughten Jr.)

I can't believe you're encouraging your daughter to join the Airhead Squad (8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; writing credit: Stig Blyme; Lars Ellegaard)

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Books

• Encouraging Children to Learn (reference)

• Encouraging Words for New Stepmothers (reference)

• Espresso for a Woman's Spirit: More Encouraging Stories of Hope and Humor (reference)

• Gay Fathers: Encouraging the Hearts of Gay Dads and Their Families (reference)

• Growing Strong Daughters: Encouraging Girls to Become All They're Meant to Be (reference)

  (more book examples)

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[Nurse encouraging a mother to let her children learn to help take care of themselves]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photograph taken circa 1942-43. He is credited with originating the phrase "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" while encouraging sailors in action during the Pearl Harbor attack, 7 December 1941. Soon thereafter, it became the title and theme of a popular song. Credit: NAVY.

Grocer Alfred Freese Port Washington, Wis., holds potatoes in front of sign painted on store window encouraging customer not to purchase potatoes. Credit: Library of Congress.

War workers' nursery. Encouraging a restful game after strenuous exercise, a nursery school supervisor helps youngsters identify animals in picture book. Credit: Library of Congress.

Morris Fork School, built since Mrs. Marie R. Turner has been county superintendent. She is trying to consolidate all the schools and build them of stone since so many of the mountain schools have been burned down several times. She has been encouraging a. Credit: Library of Congress.

Big Rock School, built since Mrs. Marie R. Turner has been county superintendent. She is trying to consolidate all the schools and build them of stone since so many of the mountain schools have been burned down several times. She has been encouraging an a. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I think your manners to him encouraging.

This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation

He taught him everything by encouraging and consoling him.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor

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Health

They can be uplifting, encouraging, and highly supportive. (references)

Resist encouraging the child to perform verbally for people. (references)

Another way of encouraging regeneration is to implant fetal tissue. (references)

Business

Generally, sales have been very encouraging. (references)

However, the development of GPRS in China is not encouraging. (references)

The prospects for exports of frozen foods to Argentina are not encouraging. (references)

Children

Mozambique

In 1999 the Cabinet issued a resolution that approved the first national policy on persons with disabilities and laid out principles and strategies aimed at encouraging their active participation in the country's socio-economic development; the plan would address concerns of persons with disabilities, including access to public buildings and government infrastructure. (references)

Congo

Following the June visit of Olara Otunnu, the U.N. Special Representative for Children, the Government announced that it had ratified the Optional Protocol banning the participation in war of children under the age of 18. The Government recruited fewer children than in previous years and stopped encouraging the enlistment of children in paramilitary organizations; however, the FAC continued to use child soldiers. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

The Nigerians also accused the police of encouraging groups of youths to steal from them. (references)

Discrimination

Tanzania

Religious and ethnic tensions in society continue to exist; however, the Government issued several statements in 2000 encouraging religious and ethnic tolerance during the election campaign. (references)

Economic History

Chad

Initial results have been encouraging. (references)

Cameroon

Recent signs, however, are encouraging. (references)

Human Rights

Slovak Republic

The practice of Chamber of Advocates leadership encouraging their membership to avoid indigent cases has been eliminated. (references)

South Africa

Those who received some training from NGO's generally were more successful in encouraging compliance with regulations on inmate treatment. (references)

China

The Prison Law prohibits prison guards extorting confessions by torture, insulting prisoners' dignity, and beating or encouraging others to beat prisoners. (references)

Minorities

Iran

He appointed the first Kurd to hold the position of Governor of Kurdistan, and the Governor appears to be facilitating a "process of reconciliation." The UNSR reports that the Government appears to be encouraging Kurdish cultural expression, with the Government subsidizing some Kurdish language classes. (references)

Political Economy

JAPAN

These tariffs limit sales of U.S. farm products by encouraging substitution and/or reducing consumption altogether. (references)

GHANA

Since 1983 Ghana has pursued an economic reform agenda aimed generally at reducing government involvement in the economy and encouraging private sector development. (references)

Political Rights

Liechtenstein

Prior to the February parliamentary elections, the Government ran two billboard campaigns to promote female candidates, one encouraging women to run for office, and another calling on voters to support female candidates. (references)

Trade

Honduras

The USDA financing programs are aimed at encouraging U.S. agricultural exports. (references)

China

By encouraging structural reform and the rule of law, the Agreement will also support China's own domestic reform process. (references)

Women

Brunei

While Islamic courts usually discourage divorce in domestic violence cases, there appears to be a movement away from encouraging wives to reconcile with flagrantly abusive spouses. (references)

East Timor

Women's groups were concerned that the CNRT was encouraging women to resolve rape and domestic violence cases through traditional rules, which usually provide only for compensation to be paid to the victim. (references)

Ghana

In July 2000, a group of seven organizations, including FIDA, Amnesty International, The Ghana Employers Association, and The Association of Business and Professional Women, issued a joint statement reflecting their disappointment at the police's lack of success, and encouraging the Government to seek international help to solve the murders. (references)

Worker Rights

Colombia

The recommendations found in the June report focus on improving protective measures for union members, combating impunity, and encouraging freedom of association. (references)

Indonesia

The military also employs baiting tactics: infiltrating workers' ranks and encouraging protests or worker actions, and in some cases attempting to provoke a violent worker action, to which the military then forcefully responds. (references)

Kuwait

Employers also reportedly use illegal methods to pressure foreign employees to drop cases against them; such as by withholding their passports, encouraging police intimidation and brutality, and filing criminal charges against them for fabricated crimes, such as theft. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "encouraging": a Language Encouraging Program Hierarchy. Additional references.

Albanian

përkrahës (abettor, adherent, advocate, allied, backer, booster, champion, devotee, exponent, follower, friend, help, partisan, promoter, satellite, supporter, upholder), nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, lively, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sexy, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), inkurajues (comforting, fomenter). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محث, ‏مشجع (emboldening, fan, heartening, hopeful, propitious, sanguine, supporter), ‏مبشر (auspicious, evangelist, favorable, favourable, hopeful, missionary, preacher, promise, promising), ‏المشجع (uncle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

окуражителен, обнадеждаващ, насърчителен (promising), поощряване (advancement, promotion, stimulation), поощрителен. (various references)

Chinese 

�"励 (Encourage, Encouraged, Encouragement). (various references)

Czech

slibný (auspicious, bright, coming, hopeful, promising, up and coming), povzbudivý (cheerful, comforting, heartening, refreshing). (various references)

Danish

Program til fremme af udvikling og distribution af europæiske audiovisuelle produktioner(MEDIA II-Udvikling og distribution) (Programme encouraging the development and distribution of European audiovisual works(Media II-Development and distribution)), politik til fremme af kvaliteten (policy of encouraging quality production, quality policy), kvalitetspolitik (policy of encouraging quality production, quality policy). (various references)

Dutch

Programma ter bevordering van de ontwikkeling en de distributie van Europese audiovisuele werken(Media II-Ontwikkeling en distributie) (Programme encouraging the development and distribution of European audiovisual works(Media II-Development and distribution)), op kwaliteitsverbetering gericht beleid (policy of encouraging quality production, quality policy), kwaliteitsbeleid (policy of encouraging quality production, quality policy). (various references)

Finnish

rohkaiseva, kannustava (stimulating). (various references)

French

encourageant. (various references)

German

ermutigend (countenancing, elating, emboldening, encouragingly, heartening), anspornend (hortative, spuring). (various references)

Greek 

ενθάρρυνση (abetment, countenance, encouragement), ενθαρρυντικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעו�"�" (buoyed up, heartening, invigorating, propitious, tonic). (various references)

Hungarian

buzdító (exhortative, exhortatory, heartening, hortative), bátorító (heartening, hortatory, inciting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

色好い (favorable, friendly). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いろよい (favorable, friendly). (various references)

Korean 

격� � (Encouragement, energising, Energizing). (various references)

Pig Latin

encouragingay.(various references)

Portuguese

encorajante, alentador. (various references)

Romanian

încurajator (heartening, incentive, inspiriting), încurajare (cheer, encouragement, reassurance), îmbãrbãtare. (various references)

Russian 

ободряющий (cheery), обнадеживающий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ohrabrujući. (various references)

Spanish

alentador. (various references)

Swedish

uppmuntrande (cheering, invigorative), hoppfull (hopeful). (various references)

Turkish

yüreklendirici (heartening), teşvik etme (incentive, incitation), teşvik edici (hortative, incentive, inciting), cesaret verici (heart-warming), ümit verici (hopeful, promising, roseate, rosy, up and coming), özendirici (incentive). (various references)

Ukrainian

заохочувальний (incentive), підбадьорливий (cheery). (various references)

Vietnamese 

l� m mạnh dạn khuyến khích, l� m can đảm, cổ vũ (cheering, hortative, hortatory, inspiriting), ủng hộ (blow, blown), động viên giúp đỡ. (various references)

Welsh

cefnogol. (various references)

exhortatio, exhortatione, exhortationem, exhortationi, exhortationis. (various references)

hortatorius. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "encouraging": encouragingly. (additional references)

Words ending with "encouraging": overencouraging, unencouraging. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Encouraging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encourageing, incouraging. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ignorance.

-3 letters: angering, canoeing, congaing, crannoge, encaging, encoring, enraging, groaning, neuronic, recaning, rogueing, unageing, uncaging, uncaring.

-4 letters: acrogen, aginner, anergic, aneurin, anguine, arguing, cannier, coenuri, coinage, coreign, corning, courage, craning, crannog, earning, engrain, enuring, garigue, gearing, georgic, gracing, grannie, grunion, guanine, naggier, narcein, nearing, negroni, organic, ranging, reunion, roguing, rouging, unaging, unicorn.

-5 letters: aeonic.

+2 letters: encouragingly, unencouraging.

+3 letters: counterarguing.

+4 letters: counterchanging, countercharging, overencouraging.