Desirable vs Encouraged - What's the difference?
desirable | encouraged |
Suitable]], worthy to be [[desire#Verb, desired.
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A thing that people want; something that is desirable.
(encourage)
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
As an adjective desirable
is suitable, worthy to be desired.As a noun desirable
is a thing that people want; something that is desirable.As a verb encouraged is
past tense of encourage.desirable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
Antonyms
* undesirableNoun
(en noun)- There are plenty of desirables on display in the window.
encouraged
English
Verb
(head)encourage
English
Verb
(encourag)- I encouraged him during his race.
- We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
- ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed