encouragement

Other forms of encouragement

plural

encouragements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about encouragement

What does encouragement mean?

encouragement means "the expression of approval and support". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in encouragement?

encouragement has 4 syllables: en-coura-ge-ment. The stress falls on "coura". In IPA it is /ɛnˈkɝɪdʒmənt/.

What is another word for encouragement?

Close synonyms include boost. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of encouragement?

The recorded antonyms are discouragement.

Is encouragement a common word?

encouragement is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.