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Definitions for encouraged
en·cour·aged

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bucked up(p), encouragedadjective

    inspired with confidence

    "felt bucked up by his success"

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  1. encouraged

    Encouraged refers to the act of giving support, confidence, or hope to someone, inspiring them to take action or continue an activity. It can also mean promoting or stimulating an activity, feeling or idea through approval, assistance, or reward.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Encouraged

    of Encourage

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'encouraged' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2194

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'encouraged' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3806

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of encouraged in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of encouraged in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of encouraged in a Sentence

  1. Lenore Skenazy:

    We've been encouraged in our society to do what I call worst-first thinking, which is come up with the worst-case scenario first and proceed as if it's likely to happen, and that's what happened with The Meitivs, someone sees two children alone, and they leap to' Oh, my God, they're neglected. What if they're run over by a Mack truck ? What if they're kidnapped ? There are predators all around.'.

  2. Mohamed Ibn Chambas:

    This is something that needs to be encouraged, if you're on the backs of these terrorists and they cross a frontier, you pursue them to whichever hole they want to hide in and you root them out.

  3. Mark Waller:

    We're encouraged by the work we've done in London, the belief we can build long term fandom for the game way beyond a one-off experience, we believe now we can take a look at the obvious next market. We have a good fan base in Germany... so it's a logical next focal point for us within the European market.

  4. Faisal Ali:

    It encouraged Acehnese to renew their dedication to their faith.

  5. Wan Azizah:

    The crisis this country faces has encouraged the opposition parties to unite and more effectively fight UMNO and Barisan Nasional, we want to change the government and the institution of governance that is giving the prime minister ways and means to abuse it.

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