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| type | a |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | giving courage or confidence or hope |
| examples | encouraging advances in medical research |
| Outgoing links | |
| Also see | helpful; hopeful; reassuring |
| Antonym | encouraging → discouraging |
| Similar to | exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory; heartening, inspiriting; promotive; rallying |
| Incoming links | |
| Also see | reassuring; helpful; hopeful |
| Similar to | exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory; heartening, inspiriting; promotive; rallying |
| Antonym | discouraging → encouraging |
| Derived from adjective | encouragingly → encouraging |
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