encouragingly
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en·cour·ag·ing
(ĕn-kûr′ə-jĭng, -kŭr′-)adj.
Giving courage, confidence, or hope: encouraging news.
en·cour′ag·ing·ly adv.
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Adv. | 1. | encouragingly - in an encouraging manner; "`Go on,' he said encouragingly to his student" discouragingly - in a discouraging manner; "the failure rate on the bar exam is discouragingly high" |
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Translations
بصورةٍ مُشَجِّعَه
glædeligt
bátorítóan
á hvetjandi hátt
cesaret verici bir şekildeteşvik ederek
encouragingly
[ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋlɪ] ADV [speak, say] → en tono alentador; [smile, nod] → de modo alentadorthe theatre was encouragingly full → el teatro estaba lleno, lo cual resultaba alentador
encouragingly, inflation is slowing down → resulta alentador que la inflación se vaya ralentizando
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
encouragingly
[ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒiŋli] adv [say, smile] → de manière encourageanteAgainst all expectations, the theatre reopened to encouragingly large audiences
BUT Contre toute attente, la réouverture du théâtre a attiré un nombre de spectateurs qui est encourageant.
most encouragingly, ... → le plus encourageant c'est que ...
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
encouragingly
adv smile, nod, say, speak → ermutigend; (+adj) → erfreulich; (introducing sentence) → erfreulicherweise; more/less encouragingly, they … → es ist ermutigender/weniger ermutigend, dass sie …
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
encourage
(inˈkaridʒ) , ((American) -ˈkə:-) verb1. to give support, confidence or hope to. The general tried to encourage the troops: You should not encourage him in his extravagance; I felt encouraged by his praise.
2. to urge (a person) to do something. You must encourage him to try again.
enˈcouraging adjectiveenˈcouragingly adverb
enˈcouragement noun
words of encouragement; He must be given every encouragement.
the opposite of encourage is discourage.
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