adjective
1. giving courage or confidence or hope
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encouraging advances in medical research
• Ant: ↑discouraging
• Similar to:
↑exhortative, ↑exhortatory, ↑hortative, ↑hortatory, ↑heartening, ↑inspiriting, ↑promotive, ↑rallying
• See Also: ↑helpful, ↑hopeful, ↑reassuring
2. furnishing support and encouragement
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the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher
• Syn: ↑supporting
• Similar to: ↑supportive
Useful english dictionary. 2012.