It is necessary for you to go and encourage the girl.
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Encourage
//ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ//
Synonyms for "encourage" (198 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (40)
Strong matches (59)
Related words (99)
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Related word relations
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More general
13 entriesAntonyms
3 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescauses
1 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
172 translations across 51 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- frymëzoj verb (mentally support or motivate)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- παρακελεύομαι verb (mentally support or motivate)
- παραμυθέομαι verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ὀτρῡ́νω verb (mentally support or motivate)
Arabic
1 entries- شَجَّعَ verb (mentally support or motivate)
Armenian
3 entries- խրախուսել verb (mentally support or motivate)
- խրախուսել verb (spur on, recommend)
- քաջալերել verb (mentally support or motivate)
Aromanian
2 entries- inimusescu verb (mentally support or motivate)
- mbãrbãtedz verb (mentally support or motivate)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ruhlandırmaq verb (mentally support or motivate)
Belarusian
2 entries- заахво́чваць verb (mentally support or motivate)
- падбадзёрваць verb (mentally support or motivate)
Bulgarian
4 entries- насърча́вам verb (mentally support or motivate)
- насърча́вам verb (spur on, recommend)
- обнадежда́вам verb (mentally support or motivate)
- окуража́вам verb (mentally support or motivate)
Catalan
4 entries- afavorir verb (foster, give help or patronage)
- alenar verb (spur on, recommend)
- encoratjar verb (mentally support or motivate)
- encoratjar verb (spur on, recommend)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鼓勵 /鼓励 verb (mentally support or motivate)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 提倡 verb (spur on, recommend)
- 激勵 /激励 verb (mentally support or motivate)
- 鼓勵 /鼓励 verb (mentally support or motivate)
Czech
1 entries- povzbudit verb (mentally support or motivate)
Danish
3 entries- anbefale verb (spur on, recommend)
- opmuntre verb (mentally support or motivate)
- støtte verb (foster, give help or patronage)
Dutch
4 entries- aanmoedigen verb (mentally support or motivate)
- aanmoedigen verb (spur on, recommend)
- bemoedigen verb (mentally support or motivate)
- bevorderen verb (foster, give help or patronage)
Esperanto
4 entries- instigi verb (spur on, recommend)
- kuraĝigi verb (mentally support or motivate)
- kuraĝigi verb (spur on, recommend)
- subteni verb (foster, give help or patronage)
Estonian
2 entries- julgustama verb (spur on, recommend)
- õhutama verb (mentally support or motivate)
Finnish
4 entries- avustaa verb (foster, give help or patronage)
- kannustaa verb (mentally support or motivate)
- rohkaista verb (mentally support or motivate)
- rohkaista verb (spur on, recommend)
French
2 entries- encourager verb (mentally support or motivate)
- encourager verb (spur on, recommend)
Georgian
3 entries- გამხნევება verb (mentally support or motivate)
- შეგულიანება verb (mentally support or motivate)
- წახალისება verb (mentally support or motivate)
German
3 entries- empfehlen verb (spur on, recommend)
- ermuntern verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ermutigen verb (mentally support or motivate)
Greek
4 entries- ενθαρρύνω verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ενθαρρύνω verb (foster, give help or patronage)
- παρακινώ verb (spur on, recommend)
- παροτρύνω verb (spur on, recommend)
Hebrew
4 entries- המליץ verb (spur on, recommend)
- עוֹדֵד verb (spur on, recommend)
- עודד verb (mentally support or motivate)
- עודד verb (mentally support or motivate)
Hindi
1 entries- प्रेरित करना verb (mentally support or motivate)
Hungarian
4 entries- biztat verb (mentally support or motivate)
- buzdít verb (mentally support or motivate)
- bátorít verb (mentally support or motivate)
- felbátorít verb (mentally support or motivate)
Irish
1 entries- spreag verb (mentally support or motivate)
Italian
4 entries- esortare verb (spur on, recommend)
- favorire verb (foster, give help or patronage)
- incoraggiare verb (mentally support or motivate)
- raccomandare verb (spur on, recommend)
Japanese
2 entries- 勇気付ける verb (mentally support or motivate)
- 奨励する verb (mentally support or motivate)
Khmer
2 entries- ចលនា verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ត្រឹក verb (mentally support or motivate)
Korean
1 entries- 격려하다 verb (mentally support or motivate)
Latin
4 entries- adhortor verb (mentally support or motivate)
- animo verb (mentally support or motivate)
- cogo verb (mentally support or motivate)
- corrōborō verb (mentally support or motivate)
Lithuanian
1 entries- padrąsinti verb (mentally support or motivate)
Māori
4 entries- akiaki verb (spur on, recommend)
- tena verb (mentally support or motivate)
- whakahauhau verb (spur on, recommend)
- whakakipakipa verb (spur on, recommend)
Nepali
1 entries- तताउनु verb (mentally support or motivate)
Norwegian
2 entries- anbefale verb (spur on, recommend)
- oppmuntre verb (mentally support or motivate)
Old English
3 entries- hiertan verb (mentally support or motivate)
- trymman verb (spur on, recommend)
- tyhtan verb (spur on, recommend)
Persian
1 entries- تشویق کردن verb (mentally support or motivate)
Polish
4 entries- dodawać odwagi verb (mentally support or motivate)
- dopingować verb (mentally support or motivate)
- namawiać verb (spur on, recommend)
- namówić verb (spur on, recommend)
Portuguese
3 entries- encorajar verb (mentally support or motivate)
- incentivar verb (mentally support or motivate)
- recomendar verb (spur on, recommend)
Romanian
3 entries- îmbărbăta verb (mentally support or motivate)
- încuraja verb (mentally support or motivate)
- însufleți verb (mentally support or motivate)
Russian
4 entries- воодушеви́ть verb (mentally support or motivate)
- воодушевля́ть verb (mentally support or motivate)
- обо́дрить verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ободря́ть verb (mentally support or motivate)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- hrabriti verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ohrabriti verb (mentally support or motivate)
- ohrabrivati verb (mentally support or motivate)
Slovene
1 entries- spodbuditi verb (mentally support or motivate)
Spanish
4 entries- alentar verb (mentally support or motivate)
- alentar verb (spur on, recommend)
- animar verb (mentally support or motivate)
- arengar verb (mentally support or motivate)
Swedish
2 entries- sporra verb (mentally support or motivate)
- uppmuntra verb (mentally support or motivate)
Telugu
1 entries- ప్రోత్సాహము verb (mentally support or motivate)
Thai
2 entries- ส่งเสริม verb (spur on, recommend)
- ให้กำลังใจ verb (mentally support or motivate)
Tok Pisin
2 entries- strongim verb (mentally support or motivate)
- strongim verb (foster, give help or patronage)
Turkish
4 entries- cesaretlendirmek verb (mentally support or motivate)
- desteklemek verb (foster, give help or patronage)
- teşvik etmek verb (mentally support or motivate)
- teşvik etmek verb (spur on, recommend)
Tày
1 entries- bom verb (mentally support or motivate)
Ukrainian
4 entries- заохо́чувати verb (mentally support or motivate)
- заохо́чувати verb (spur on, recommend)
- підбадьо́рювати verb (mentally support or motivate)
- підтри́мувати verb (mentally support or motivate)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cổ vũ verb (mentally support or motivate)
- khích lệ verb (mentally support or motivate)
- động viên verb (mentally support or motivate)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.
Source: tatoeba (23969)
You must encourage him to try again.
Source: tatoeba (31483)
American industry makes various attempts to find and encourage brilliant students from abroad.
Source: tatoeba (67579)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.