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encouraging
Synonyms and Antonyms of encouraging
- encouraging signs that the economy is improving
- the encouraging story of a young girl who overcame great social and physical obstacles to become an outstanding athlete
- we're off to an encouraging start on this project
Synonyms and Antonyms of encouraging
- a pep talk that encouraged the team to get out there and win
- asserted that the government should be encouraging small businesses, not smothering them with regulations
banning, barring, enjoining, forbidding, interdicting, outlawing, preventing, prohibiting, proscribing
battling, combating (or combatting), contending (with), countering, fighting, opposing
repressing, snuffing (out), squashing, squelching, stifling, subduing, suppressing
arresting, checking, halting, retarding
encumbering, fettering, hobbling, impeding, interfering (with), manacling, obstructing, shackling
- the movie's cheap special effects will not encourage audiences to sit on the edge of their seats but to roll in the aisles with laughter
fanning, igniting, inflaming (also enflaming), kindling, triggering
activating, animating, driving, energizing, galvanizing, inducing, inspiring, keying (up), motivating, motiving, pumping up, quickening, setting off, vitalizing
abetting, fermenting, fomenting, raising, whipping (up)
angering, enraging, maddening, upsetting
aggravating, annoying, bothering, exasperating, galling, getting, irritating, vexing
- the pastor continues to encourage the couple to work out their problems in hopes of saving their marriage
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