Encouraging vs Encourage - What's the difference?
encouraging | encourage | Derived terms |
giving courage, confidence or hope
supporting by giving encouragement
auspicious, or bringing good luck
To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
Encourage is a derived term of encouraging.
As verbs the difference between encouraging and encourage
is that encouraging is present participle of lang=en while encourage is to mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.As an adjective encouraging
is giving courage, confidence or hope.encouraging
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Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)encourage
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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