encouraging
adjectiveHow many syllables in encouraging?
There are 4 syllables in the word encouraging.How to pronounce encouraging:
Definition of encouraging:
- encouraging (adjective):
- giving hope or promise
- showing the signs of future success
- giving courage or confidence or hope.
Synonyms for encouraging:
auspicious
bright
cheerful
cheering
comforting
exhortative
exhortatory
fair
favorable
favourable
golden
good
heartening
helpful
hopeful
hortative
hortatory
inspiriting
likely
optimistic
positive
promising
promotive
propitious
rallying
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Antonyms for encouraging:
adverse
austere
bad
bearish
bitter
black
bleak
cheerless
chilling
cloudy
cold
cool
dampening
dark
daunting
dejected
dejecting
demoralising
demoralizing
demotivating
demotivational
depressed
depressing
depressive
desolate
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- mediocre
- overeager
- inhumanly
- successfulness
- replaceable
- apologise
- endeavoring
- presumptuous
- accessibly
- scenario
- phonographic
- heptameter
- connotation
- elevation
- perspicuous
- recalcitrance
- cooperative
- lugubrious
- lamentation
- contrarily
- overrated
- edacity
- compunctious
- clever-clever
- belletristic
- wishy-washy
- Kozakura
- non sequitur
- equivocal
- circumspectly
- acclimatize
- hyperactive
- ignorable
- antisocial
- previously
- acoustician
- interwoven
- nomenclature
- dubiety
- Ashwathama
- verbosity
- unconfident
- atticism
- excogitate
- passivism
- pestilential
- delectation
- mannerism
- congruity
- elegiac
- … more
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