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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Encourage \En*cour"age\ (?; 48), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Encouraged} (?; 48); p. pr. & vb. n. {Encouraging}.] [F. encourager; pref. en- (L. in) + courage courage. See {Courage}.] To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of {discourage}.
David encouraged himself in the Lord. --1 Sam. xxx. 6.
Syn: To embolden; inspirit; animate; enhearten; hearten; incite; cheer; urge; impel; stimulate; instigate; countenance; comfort; promote; advance; forward; strengthen.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Encouraging \En*cour"a*ging\, adjective Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- {En*cour"a*ging*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
encouraging
adjective
1: giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research" [ant: {discouraging}]
2: furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" [syn: {supporting}]
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" [syn: {auspicious}, {favorable}, {favourable}, {lucky}, {prosperous}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "encouraging": alluring, animating, assuring, auspicious, bright with promise, challenging, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, couleur de rose, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, favorable, full of promise, galvanic, galvanizing, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, inviting, joyful, likely, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, piquant, pregnant of good, promising, prompting, propitious, provocative, provoking, reassuring, relieving, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rousing, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, supportive, sympathetic
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