Your words of encouragement meant a lot to me.
Source: tatoeba (70734)
Encouragement
/[ɪnˈkʌɹɪd͡ʒmənt]/
Synonyms for "encouragement" (102 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (51)
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More general
7 entriesAntonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriesderived
3 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- παραμυθία noun (the act of encouraging)
- παραμυθία noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Armenian
3 entries- խրախուսանք noun (the act of encouraging)
- քաջալերանք noun (the act of encouraging)
- քաջալերություն noun (the act of encouraging)
Belarusian
2 entries- заахво́чванне noun (the act of encouraging)
- падбадзёрванне noun (the act of encouraging)
Bengali
2 entries- উদ্দীপনা noun (the act of encouraging)
- উদ্দীপনা noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Bulgarian
2 entries- поощрение noun (the act of encouraging)
- поощрение noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 獎勵 /奖励 noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- 鼓勵 /鼓励 noun (the act of encouraging)
Czech
1 entries- povzbuzení noun (the act of encouraging)
Danish
2 entries- opmuntring noun (the act of encouraging)
- tilskyndelse noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Dutch
3 entries- aanmoediging noun (the act of encouraging)
- aanmoediging noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- bemoediging noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Esperanto
2 entries- akcelo noun (the act of encouraging)
- kuraĝigo noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Finnish
2 entries- rohkaisu noun (the act of encouraging)
- rohkaisu noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
French
2 entries- encouragement noun (the act of encouraging)
- encouragement noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Georgian
4 entries- გამხნევება noun (the act of encouraging)
- შეგულიანება noun (the act of encouraging)
- წაქეზება noun (the act of encouraging)
- წახალისება noun (the act of encouraging)
German
1 entries- Ermutigung noun (the act of encouraging)
Greek
4 entries- ενθάρρυνση noun (the act of encouraging)
- παρακίνηση noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- παρότρυνση noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- προτροπή noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Hindi
1 entries- प्रोत्साहन noun (the act of encouraging)
Hungarian
3 entries- bátorítás noun (the act of encouraging)
- pártolás noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- támogatás noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Irish
1 entries- spreagadh noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Italian
2 entries- incoraggiamento noun (the act of encouraging)
- incoraggiamento noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Japanese
2 entries- 奨励 noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- 激励 noun (the act of encouraging)
Kazakh
2 entries- жігерлендіру noun (the act of encouraging)
- ынталандыру noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Korean
1 entries- 격려 noun (the act of encouraging)
Latin
2 entries- exhortātiō noun (the act of encouraging)
- lux noun (the act of encouraging)
Malayalam
2 entries- പ്രോത്സാഹനം noun (the act of encouraging)
- പ്രോത്സാഹനം noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- oppmuntring noun (the act of encouraging)
- oppmuntring noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- oppmuntring noun (the act of encouraging)
- oppmuntring noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Polish
1 entries- zachęcanie noun (the act of encouraging)
Portuguese
4 entries- encorajamento noun (the act of encouraging)
- encorajamento noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- estimulação noun (the act of encouraging)
- estímulo noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Romanian
3 entries- stimulare noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- încurajare noun (the act of encouraging)
- încurajare noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Russian
3 entries- ободре́ние noun (the act of encouraging)
- поощре́ние noun (the act of encouraging)
- поощре́ние noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Spanish
4 entries- aliento noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- apoyo noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- fomento noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
- hálito noun (that which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.)
Swedish
1 entries- uppmuntran noun (the act of encouraging)
Ukrainian
2 entries- заохо́чення noun (the act of encouraging)
- підбадьо́рення noun (the act of encouraging)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Without your encouragement, I should have given up the plan.
Source: tatoeba (70735)
Your encouragement will draw her out.
Source: tatoeba (71299)
My advice acted as an encouragement to her.
Source: tatoeba (251490)
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