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Synonyms for encouragement
noun help, support- assistance
- backing
- cheer
- comfort
- confidence
- consolation
- faith
- fortitude
- incentive
- inspiration
- optimism
- reassurance
- relief
- reward
- stimulation
- stimulus
- advance
- advocacy
- aid
- animation
- boost
- easement
- favor
- firmness
- helpfulness
- hope
- incitement
- invigoration
- promotion
- refreshment
- softening
- succor
- supporting
- trust
- urging
- consoling
- enlivening
- inspiritment
- reassuring
- relieving
- shot in the arm
- solacing
Antonyms for encouragement
- annoyance
- discouragement
- distrust
- doubt
- gloom
- hindrance
- hurt
- injury
- disbelief
- impediment
- denunciation
- derision
- deterrent
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
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abetment
noun. help
advice
noun. recommendation
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- aid
- bum steer
- caution
- charge
- consultation
- counsel
- directions
- dissuasion
- encouragement
- exhortation
- forewarning
- guidance
- help
- information
- injunction
- input
- instruction
- judgment
- lesson
- news
- opinion
- persuasion
- prescription
- proposal
- proposition
- recommendation
- steer
- suggestion
- teaching
- telltale
- tidings
- tip
- tip-off
- two cents' worth
- view
- warning
- word
- word to the wise
aid
noun. help, support
- advancement
- advice
- advocacy
- alleviation
- allowance
- assist
- assistance
- attention
- backing
- backup
- benefaction
- benefit
- benevolence
- bounty
- care
- charity
- comfort
- compensation
- cooperation
- deliverance
- encouragement
- endowment
- favor
- furtherance
- gift
- giving
- guidance
- hand
- handout
- leg up
- lift
- ministration
- ministry
- patronage
- promotion
- reinforcement
- relief
- rescue
- reward
- salvation
- service
- shot in the arm
- subsidy
- sustenance
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backing
noun. support
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.