Encourage

Verb

 * 1) To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
 * I encouraged him during his race.
 * 1) To spur on, strongly recommend.
 * We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
 * 1) To foster, give help or patronage
 * ''The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

Antonyms

 * discourage

Derived terms

 * encouragement
 * encouraging
 * encouragingly

Related terms

 * courage

Adverbs for Encourage
smoothly; openly; jovially; tremendously; sympathetically; willingly; specially; genially; unduly; adroitly; enormously; affectionately; consistently; wordlessly; unceasingly; remotely; cordially; professionally.

Thesaurus
abet, admonish, advance, advantage, advocate, aid, aid and abet, animate, ask for, assist, assure, bear up, bolster, boost, brace up, brighten, buck up, buoy up, caution, charge, cheer, cheer up, chirk up, comfort, condole with, conduce to, console, contribute to, countenance, ease, egg on, embolden, endorse, enjoin, enliven, exhilarate, exhort, expedite, expostulate, facilitate, favor, feed, forward, foster, further, give a lift, give comfort, give encouragement, gladden, go for, hasten, hearten, help, incite, induce, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, invite, issue a caveat, keep in countenance, lend wings to, liven, make for, move, nerve, nourish, nurture, pep up, persuade, pick up, preach, promote, prompt, push forward, put at ease, put forward, quicken, reassure, rejoice, rejoice the heart, relieve, remonstrate, set at ease, set forward, shine upon, smile upon, solace, speed, stimulate, subscribe, subsidize, support, sympathize with, urge, vitalize, warn

Etymology
encoragen from encoragier from  encoragier from  "courage". Displaced native belden, bielden "to encourage" (from  bieldan "to encourage"),  bealden, balden "to encourage" (from  bealdian "to encourage, make bold"),  herten "to encourage, enhearten" (from  hiertan, hyrtan "to enhearten"),  elnian "to encourage, strengthen".

Translations

 * Arabic: شجع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kuraĝigi
 * Estonian: õhutama
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: עודד
 * Hungarian:, , biztat, buzdít


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 勇気付ける
 * Korean: 격려
 * Latin:, , , animo
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: încuraja, însufleți
 * Russian: ободрять, поощрять , воодушевлять , воодушевить
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్రోత్సాహము
 * Telugu: ప్రోత్సాహము


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kuraĝigi,
 * Estonian: julgustama
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: המליץ
 * Norwegian:
 * Spanish: recomendar


 * Dutch: bevorderen, patroneren, steunen
 * Esperanto: vigligi,


 * Hungarian:


 * : recomendar, motivar


 * : ప్రోత్సహించు (prOtsahiMchu)