Dictionary Definition
encouragement
Noun
1 the expression of approval and support [ant:
discouragement]
2 the act of giving hope or support to someone
[syn: boost]
3 the feeling of being encouraged
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice;
as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
- All generous encouragement of arts. -Otway.
- That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as
favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of
confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a
rude people.
- To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. -Byron.
Translations
The act of encouraging
- Czech: povzbuzení
- Finnish: rohkaisu
- French: encouragement
- German: Ermutigung
That which serves to incite, support, promote,
or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.
- Finnish: rohkaisu
- French: encouragement
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abetment, advocacy, aegis, aid, aid and comfort, animating, animation, assurance, auspices, backing, bait, boost, bribe, care, carrot, championship, charity, cheering, comfort, condolence, consolation, countenance, easement, emboldening, exhortation, exhorting, favor, fillip, fosterage, goading, goodwill, guidance, heartening, help, incentive, incitement, inciting, inducement, insistence, inspiration, inspiring, inspiriting, inspiritment, instance, interest, invitation, lure, needling, patronage, payment, pep talk, percentage, persuasive, pressing, pressure, pricking, prodding, profit, promoting, promotion, provocation, reassurance, reassuring, relief, reward, seconding, shred of comfort,
solace, solacement, sponsorship, spur, spurring, stimulating, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, support, supporting, sweetener, sweetening, sympathy, tutelage, urging, whet