Encouraging

a.

1.

Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring.

Adj.	1.	encouraging - giving courage or confidence or hope; "encouraging advances in medical research" Antonyms: discouraging - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
	2.	encouraging - furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" Synonyms: supporting
	3.	encouraging - tending to favor or bring good luck; "miracles are auspicious accidents"; "encouraging omens"; "a favorable time to ask for a raise"; "lucky stars"; "a prosperous moment to make a decision" Synonyms: auspicious, lucky, prosperous, favourable, favorable

alluring, animating, assuring, auspicious, bright with promise, challenging, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, couleur de rose, energizing, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, favorable, full of promise, galvanic, galvanizing, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, invigorating, inviting, joyful, likely, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, piquant, pregnant of good, promising, prompting, propitious, provocative, provoking, reassuring, relieving, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rousing, stimulant, stimulating, stimulative, stirring, supportive, sympathetic