Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to encourage
Participle: encouraged
Gerund: encouraging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | encourage |
| you | encourage |
| he;she;it | encourages |
| we | encourage |
| you | encourage |
| they | encourage |
Perfect
| I | have encouraged |
| you | have encouraged |
| he;she;it | has encouraged |
| we | have encouraged |
| you | have encouraged |
| they | have encouraged |
Past
| I | encouraged |
| you | encouraged |
| he;she;it | encouraged |
| we | encouraged |
| you | encouraged |
| they | encouraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had encouraged |
| you | had encouraged |
| he;she;it | had encouraged |
| we | had encouraged |
| you | had encouraged |
| they | had encouraged |
Future
| I | will encourage |
| you | will encourage |
| he;she;it | will encourage |
| we | will encourage |
| you | will encourage |
| they | will encourage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have encouraged |
| you | will have encouraged |
| he;she;it | will have encouraged |
| we | will have encouraged |
| you | will have encouraged |
| they | will have encouraged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | encourage |
| you | encourage |
| he;she;it | encourage |
| we | encourage |
| you | encourage |
| they | encourage |
Perfect
| I | have encouraged |
| you | have encouraged |
| he;she;it | have encouraged |
| we | have encouraged |
| you | have encouraged |
| they | have encouraged |
Imperfect
| I | encouraged |
| you | encouraged |
| he;she;it | encouraged |
| we | encouraged |
| you | encouraged |
| they | encouraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had encouraged |
| you | had encouraged |
| he;she;it | had encouraged |
| we | had encouraged |
| you | had encouraged |
| they | had encouraged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would encourage |
| you | would encourage |
| he;she;it | would encourage |
| we | would encourage |
| you | would encourage |
| they | would encourage |
Perfect
| I | would have encouraged |
| you | would have encouraged |
| he;she;it | would have encouraged |
| we | would have encouraged |
| you | would have encouraged |
| they | would have encouraged |
Imperative
| you | encourage |
| we | Let's encourage |
| you | encourage |
Verbs conjugated like 'encourage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'encourage'
incourage,
accourage,
courage,
reencourage,
couage,
decoupage,
discourage,
encage,
encharge,
encore,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure
- animate, awaken, call up, electrify, enflame, enkindle, enliven, enthrill, exagitate, excite, exhilarate, exsuscitate, fillip, fire, fire the blood, foment, galvanise, gin up, inflame, inspirit, intoxicate, invigorate, kindle, liven, liven up, pique, provoke, quicken, rouse, sharpen, stimulate, stir, stir the blood, stir up, stoke, suscitate, thrill, vitalize, wake, warm the blood, whet, work up
- to encourage or persuade into action; to bring about a reaction
- abet, actuate, bring about, engender, evoke, excite, foment, goad, grill, impel, incite, induce, instigate, invoke, motivate, move, prompt, provoke, rouse, set off, spur, stir, stir up, urge, whip up
- hearted
- spirit, assure, brighten, animate, comfort, revitalize, cheer, console
- abet
- nourish, invite, bolster, advocate, nurse, advance, brace, aid
Antonyms
- to keep under control
- promote, provoke, release, curb, vent
- abet
- hinder, obstruct, impede, disconcert
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier. Displaced native Old English hiertan, tyhtan, and trymman. By surface analysis, en- + courage. See: Old French '
encoragier'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] or her own proper character, with its individuality unimpaired; not lost in a dull, ugly, monotonous repetition of the same unmeaning garb: which is really an important consideration. The wisdom of encouraging a little harmless pride in personal appearance even among the blind, or the whimsical absurdity of considering charity and leather breeches inseparable companions, as we do, requires no comment.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] they were similar to the ones pasted on the articles. ’ She showed her perception of this similarity by laying the label key upon the key, and the label spoon upon the spoon. She was encouraged here by the natural sign of approbation, patting on the head.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] as being exceedingly ludicrous. Strange as it may seem too, there is undoubtedly a degree of protection in the wig and gown—a dismissal of individual responsibility in dressing for the part—which encourages that insolent bearing and language, and that gross perversion of the office of a pleader for The Truth, so frequent in our courts of law. Still, I cannot help doubting whether America, in her [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ These feelings are quite natural, George, ” said the good-natured man, blowing his nose. “ Yes, they 're natural, but it is my duty not to encourage ’ em in you. Yes, my boy, I 'm sorry for you, now; it's a bad case—very bad; but the apostle says, ‘Let everyone abide in the condition in which he is called. ’ We must all submit to the indications [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] less than help this very important process of _talking about_ the matter. The minister, who inclined strongly to abolitionist views, was quite doubtful whether such a step might not tend somewhat to encourage the southerners in holding on to their slaves; while the doctor, who was a stanch colonizationist, inclined to the opinion that Miss Ophelia ought to go, to show the Orleans people that we don't [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] inclined to the opinion that Miss Ophelia ought to go, to show the Orleans people that we don't think hardly of them, after all. He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. When however, the fact that she had resolved to go was fully before the public mind, she was solemnly invited out to tea by all her friends and neighbors for the space of a fortnight, and her [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism. Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, cousin, what an awful ’ doing evil that good may come ’ ! I can't encourage it. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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Nobody can live entirely without social intercourse; and Legree encouraged his two black satellites to a kind of coarse familiarity with him,—a familiarity, however, at any moment liable to get one or the other of them into trouble; for, on the slightest provocation, one [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] overpowering, that they press into their service the outward imagining. Who shall measure what an all-pervading Spirit may do with these capabilities of our mortality, or the ways in which He may encourage the desponding souls of the desolate ? If the poor forgotten slave believes that Jesus hath appeared and spoken to him, who shall contradict him ? Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)