Hyphenation of encouraging

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word encouraging? This word can be hyphenated and contains 4 syllables as shown below.

en-cour-ag-ing

Definitions of encouraging:

1.	Giving courage or confidence or hope Encouraging advances in medical research
2.	Furnishing support and encouragement The anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher

Synonyms of encouraging:

adj	encouraging, exhortative, exhortatory, hortative, hortatory, heartening, inspiriting, promotive, rallying, helpful, hopeful, reassuring
adj	supporting, supportive
adj	auspicious, favorable, favourable, lucky, prosperous, propitious

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.