“encouraging advances in medical research”
- Synonyms
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reassuring
restoring confidence and relieving anxiety
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exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory
giving strong encouragement
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heartening, inspiriting
cheerfully encouraging
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promotive
tending to further or encourage
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rallying
rousing or recalling to unity and renewed effort
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helpful
providing assistance or serving a useful function
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hopeful
having or manifesting hope
- Antonyms:
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discouraging
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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daunting, intimidating
discouraging through fear
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demoralising, demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting
destructive of morale and self-reliance
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frustrating
discouraging by hindering
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unencouraging
not encouraging
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unhelpful
providing no assistance
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hopeless
without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
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dissuasive
deterring from action
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