DISCOURAGING Antonyms

• having or manifesting hope

• an ambitious and aspiring young person

• likely to turn out well in the future

• stimulating or exalting to the spirit

• the act of motivating; providing incentive

• impelling to action

• expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

• expecting the best

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

• of or relating to positivism

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• persuaded of; very sure

• involving advantage or good

• formally laid down or imposed

• impossible to deny or disprove

• greater than zero

• having a positive charge

• marked by excessive confidence

• restoring confidence and relieving anxiety

• rousing or quickening activity or the senses

• that stimulates

• making lively and cheerful

• furnishing support or assistance

• the rise of something

• contribute to the progress or growth of

• inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

• spur on