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encouraging

adj
/ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/UK/ɪnˈkɝɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/US

Definitions

  1. Giving courage, confidence or hope

    Giving courage, confidence or hope; auspicious.

    • Although there is no cure for the disease yet, the research results are encouraging.
    • There are some encouraging signs of economic recovery.

  2. Supporting by giving encouragement

    Supporting by giving encouragement: positively.

    • Your encouraging words inspired me to persevere.

  3. present participle and gerund of encourage

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. encouragement

      • […] the thousand little ties of sympathy and mutual hopes and fears, comfortings and encouragings.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at encouraging. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at encouraging. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at encouraging

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA