ENCOURAGINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encouragingly mean? 

• ENCOURAGINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb ENCOURAGINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in an encouraging manner

  Familiarity information: ENCOURAGINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCOURAGINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an encouraging manner

Context example:

'Go on,' he said encouragingly to his student

Antonym:

discouragingly (in a discouraging manner)

Pertainym:

encouraging (giving courage or confidence or hope)

 Context examples 

“All very right indeed,” said my aunt, encouragingly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The fires seemed to burn with unusual cheeriness, and every time the girls met, their pale faces broke into smiles as they hugged one another, whispering encouragingly, Mother's coming, dear!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In spite of his Christian stoicism, when she went up and addressed him, and smiled gaily, encouragingly, even fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Encouragingly, a licensed drug for emphysema reversed damaging inflammation in tissues lacking SPINK7.

(Eosinophilic esophagitis may be due to missing protein, National Institutes of Health)

The cook stuck his head out of the galley door and grinned encouragingly at me, at the same time jerking his thumb in the direction of the man who paced up and down by the hatchway.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She got calmer by degrees, and then we soothed her; now talking encouragingly, and now jesting a little with her, until she began to raise her head and speak to us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The Doctor, walking up and down with his hand on my shoulder, and his kind face turned encouragingly to mine, went on: Now, my dear Copperfield, in reference to this proposal of yours.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)