All discourage antonyms

verb discourage

• cheer — When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
• comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
• stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
• uplift — to lift up; raise; elevate.
• hearten — to give courage or confidence to; cheer.
• assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• gladden — to make glad.
• reassure — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
• compliment — A compliment is a polite remark that you say to someone to show that you like their appearance, appreciate their qualities, or approve of what they have done.
• laud — to praise; extol.
• praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
• inspirit — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
• assure — If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• please — (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly: Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?
• approve — If you approve of an action, event, or suggestion, you like it or are pleased about it.
• commend — If you commend someone or something, you praise them formally.
• allow — If someone is allowed to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble.
• spur on — encourage
• facilitate — to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.
• permit — to allow to do something: Permit me to explain.
• advance — To advance means to move forward, often in order to attack someone.
• forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• support — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
• courage — Courage is the quality shown by someone who decides to do something difficult or dangerous, even though they may be afraid.