Encouraging can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| encouraging - giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research" | ||
| encouraging - furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" | ||
Verb |
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| encourage - inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to | ||
| encourage - spur on; "His financial success encouraged him to look for a wife" | ||
| encourage - contribute to the progress or growth of; "I am promoting the use of computers in the classroom" |
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| 1. | adj. | Encouraging advances in medical research. | |
| 2. | adj. | The report is not encouraging sales wise. | |
| 3. | adj. | All right! Everybody around me is so encouraging I'm getting a rush of motivation. | |
| 4. | adj. | I want to draw your attention toward last quarter's results which are very encouraging. | |
| 5. | adj. | That's encouraging. | |
| 6. | adj. | That's encouraging news. | |
| 7. | adj. | That's very encouraging. | |
| 8. | adj. | Your encouraging words are very valuable to me. | |
| 9. | adj. | We have some encouraging news. | |
| 10. | adj. | Tom wasn't very encouraging. | |
| 11. | adj. | Tom has some very encouraging news to report. | |
| 12. | adj. | You're not very encouraging. | |
| 13. | adj. | Everyone was so encouraging. | |
| 14. | adj. | Tom was very encouraging. | |
| 15. | adj. | His progress in class is encouraging. | |
| 16. | verb | Instead they are encouraging everyone to come forward if they see any potential problems (as it is clear that overlooked problems could result in unnecessary losses). | |
| 17. | verb | Dad's always encouraging him. | |
| 18. | verb | Tom keeps encouraging Mary to do things on her own. | |
| 19. | verb | Everyone knows that he's no saint. By defending him, we'd be accepting and encouraging his views. | |
| 20. | verb | Tom is encouraging his students. | |
| 21. | verb | I am encouraging my brother. | |
| 22. | verb | You were encouraging this woman to love her husband. | |
| 23. | verb | I wrote a post to my blog encouraging men to report experiences with domestic abuse. | |
| 24. | verb | While there is a plurality of Tatoeba sentences in English, it is encouraging that Esperanto, Italian, German, Turkish, Russian, French and Spanish already have respectable numbers of sentences as well. | |
| 25. | verb | We're encouraging everyone to come. | |
| 26. | verb | So we’ve been working to change these stereotypes. That’s why we’re encouraging more girls to pursue their love for science, and technology, and engineering, and math. | |
| 27. | verb | He's encouraging me to go there. | |
| 28. | verb | The coaches kept encouraging me. | |
| 29. | verb | Tom is encouraging everyone to come. | |
| 30. | verb | Layla was encouraging Salima to wear the hijab. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Encouraging advances in medical research. |
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| The report is not encouraging sales wise. | |
| All right! Everybody around me is so encouraging I'm getting a rush of motivation. | |
| I want to draw your attention toward last quarter's results which are very encouraging. | |
| That's encouraging. | |
| That's encouraging news. | |
| That's very encouraging. | |
| Your encouraging words are very valuable to me. | |
| We have some encouraging news. | |
| Tom wasn't very encouraging. | |
| Tom has some very encouraging news to report. | |
| You're not very encouraging. | |
| Everyone was so encouraging. | |
| Tom was very encouraging. | |
| His progress in class is encouraging. | |
| verb | |
| Instead they are encouraging everyone to come forward if they see any potential problems (as it is clear that overlooked problems could result in unnecessary losses). |
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| Dad's always encouraging him. | |
| Tom keeps encouraging Mary to do things on her own. | |
| Everyone knows that he's no saint. By defending him, we'd be accepting and encouraging his views. | |
| Tom is encouraging his students. | |
| I am encouraging my brother. | |
| You were encouraging this woman to love her husband. | |
| I wrote a post to my blog encouraging men to report experiences with domestic abuse. | |
| While there is a plurality of Tatoeba sentences in English, it is encouraging that Esperanto, Italian, German, Turkish, Russian, French and Spanish already have respectable numbers of sentences as well. | |
| We're encouraging everyone to come. | |
| So we’ve been working to change these stereotypes. That’s why we’re encouraging more girls to pursue their love for science, and technology, and engineering, and math. | |
| He's encouraging me to go there. | |
| The coaches kept encouraging me. | |
| Tom is encouraging everyone to come. | |
| Layla was encouraging Salima to wear the hijab. | |