encouraging

/in'kʌridʤiɳ/

Thân thiện

The teacher gives the student an encouraging smile after she reads her story aloud.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Providing support, hope, or confidence: Describes something that offers positive reinforcement, boosts morale, or gives reasons to believe in a favorable outcome.
   • Promising or heartening: Indicates that developments or signs are positive and likely to lead to success or improvement.

Usage

• Used to describe actions, words, results, or signs that have a positive, supportive, or hopeful effect.
• Often modifies nouns like , , , , , .

Examples

• Adjective:
  • The teacher's encouraging words helped the student try again.
  • The latest sales figures are very encouraging.
  • She gave me an encouraging smile before my presentation.

Advanced Usage

• "to find something encouraging": to consider something as a positive sign.
  • Investors found the company's growth report encouraging.
• "in an encouraging manner/way": doing something in a way that offers support.
  • The coach spoke to the team in an encouraging way after the loss.

Variants and Related Words

• Encourage (verb): to give support, confidence, or hope to someone.
  • Parents should encourage their children to read.
• Encouragement (noun): the action of giving support or confidence; supportive words or actions.
  • Your encouragement means a lot to me.
• Encouragingly (adverb): in a manner that gives support or hope.
  • The doctor nodded encouragingly.

Synonyms

• Supportive: providing encouragement or emotional help.
• Heartening: making one feel more cheerful or optimistic.
• Promising: showing signs of future success.
• Reassuring: removing someone's doubts or fears.

Antonyms

• Discouraging: causing someone to lose confidence or enthusiasm.
• Disheartening: causing someone to lose determination or hope.
• Dismal: depressing; causing gloom.

Related Phrases

• A word of encouragement: a supportive or hopeful comment.
  • He just needed a word of encouragement to continue.
• To take encouragement from something: to derive hope or confidence from something.
  • We can take encouragement from the early success of the project.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. furnishing support and encouragement
   • the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher
2. giving courage or confidence or hope
   • encouraging advances in medical research

Từ đồng nghĩa

• supporting