ENCOURAGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encouraged mean? 

• ENCOURAGED (adjective)
  The adjective ENCOURAGED has 1 sense:

1. inspired with confidence

  Familiarity information: ENCOURAGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCOURAGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inspired with confidence

Synonyms:

bucked up; encouraged

Context example:

felt bucked up by his success

Similar:

pleased (experiencing or manifesting pleasure)

 Context examples 

Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, It is a pity you should not join them.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

All families were given insecticide-treated bed nets and encouraged to use them.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

He would save himself from witnessing again such permitted, encouraged attentions.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The scaffold served as a structure onto which neurons could anchor themselves, and the gel encouraged axons to grow through it.

(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)

If you have children, they will be protected and encouraged by events throughout the New Year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Though he often tried to bark thereafter, and the master encouraged him, he succeeded only once, and then it was not in the master's presence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I encouraged him to talk about Sophy, on the way; which he did with a loving reliance on her that I very much admired.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Little notice was taken of her stories, but they found a market, and encouraged by this fact, she resolved to make a bold stroke for fame and fortune.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The following spring he was seen again in town, found equally agreeable, again encouraged, invited, and expected, and again he did not come; and the next tidings were that he was married.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They encouraged each other now in the violence of their affliction.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)