What does encouraged mean?

Definitions for encouraged
en·cour·aged

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word encouraged.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. bucked up(p), encouragedadjective

    inspired with confidence

    "felt bucked up by his success"

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. John Henry Hagmann:

    The same institution that is now making a complaint originally supported and encouraged the programs.

  2. Anish Kapoor:

    In light of this solidarity and support I am encouraged to confront this organization and hold it to account for its blatant copyright infringement.

  3. Bruce Rastetter:

    We encouraged him to run for President because we believed he had a bold leadership style, he had conviction and principle, and he would make a great President and so as we think about four years later in today's cycle, all those same things hold even more true.

  4. Cyril Connolly:

    The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.

  5. Marvin Ammori:

    All afternoon in fact I've received emails and calls from entrepreneurs across the country encouraged by the chairman's remarks, willing to work with him.

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    being essentially equal to something
    • A. tantamount
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