encouraging

1. Giving courage or confidence or hope (synset 300869779)
   "encouraging advances in medical research"
   also:

   • reassuring - restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
   • helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful function
   • hopeful - having or manifesting hope
   similar to:

   • exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory - giving strong encouragement
   • heartening, inspiriting - cheerfully encouraging
   • promotive - tending to further or encourage
   • rallying - rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort
2. Furnishing support and encouragement (synset 302364800)
   "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher"
   similar to: supportive - furnishing support or assistance
   same as: supporting

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