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encouraged

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪŋˈkɝɪd͡ʒd//

Having been given hope or encouragement.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having been given hope or encouragement.

    The results for item 1 indicate that in 1994-5 employees in the public sector were more encouraged to participate in management than those in the non-public sector and the impact of the ownership type is significant.

    You would certainly feel more encouraged and willing to make efforts for humans if they looked at you with joy and gratitude and encouraged you with positive words.

    Participants felt more enjoyment from the media feedback when they felt more encouraged, more competent, more autonomy, and that the information was accurate.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of encouragesimple past and past participle of encourage

Forms

comparative
more encouraged
superlative
most encouraged
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).