Antonyms for encourage

emotion:

discourage.

give support; help:

disagree, undermine, reject, thwart, condemn, stop, protest, refuse, injure, disapprove, obstruct, ignore, decrease, oppose, hinder, prevent, worsen, cease, halt, worry, impede, neglect.

stimulate spiritually:

agitate, annoy, dissuade, bore, dishearten, block, deject, hurt, dull, depress, confuse, sadden, deaden, tire, deter, calm, repress, discourage, dampen, upset, uninspire, trouble, leave alone, dispirit, weaken.

noun:

brake, counteract, confound, enfeeble, stifle, halt, interdict, hamstring, check, battle, shackle, constrain, undermine, ban, fight, pacify, arrest, snuff, baffle, impede, counter, hinder, manacle, debilitate, soothe, contend, mollify, denounce, bar, appease, calm, PSYCH, tranquilize, disapprove, hobble, curb, disconcert, combat, weaken, expose, interfere, fetter, placate.

Paraphrases for Encourage:

• Adjective :
  attractive, beneficial, build, catalyze, complementary, conducive, enable, encouraged, encourages, encouraging, engage, engaging, enhance, enhanced, Enhancing, facilitate, Facilitating, favorable, foment, foster, fostering, further, helpful, improve, incentive, increasing, inspiring, interested, invite, promote, Promoted, promotes, Promoting, promotional, stimulate, stimulating, support, supportive.
• Adverb :
  actively, encouragement, encourages, encouraging, further, promote, stimulate, support.
• Cardinal number :
  enable, encouragement, encourages.
• Coordinating conjunction :
  enhance, promote, support.
• Foreign word :
  promote.
• Noun, plural :
  encouraged, encourages, fostering, fosters, Incentives, makes, Opportunities, outcomes, Possibilities, promote, promotes, promotion, supports.
• Noun, singular or mass :
  advancement, boost, build, co-location, encouragement, encourages, encouraging, engaging, enhance, Enhancing, facilitate, Facilitating, facilitation, favor, Favouring, fostering, furtherance, impetus, incentive, leverage, motivation, promote, Promoting, promotion, stimulate, stimulating, stimulation, stimulus, support, urge.
• Proper noun, singular :
  appeals, build, building, challenge, encouraged, encouragement, encourages, encouraging, engage, engages, engaging, enhance, Enhancing, facilitate, Facilitating, foster, fostering, fuels, hails, incentive, Incentives, invite, invites, Nurturing, promote, promotes, Promoting, promotion, stimulate, stimulating, support, supporting, supports, urge, urging.
• Verb, 3rd person singular present :
  advocates, aids, aims, allows, assists, attracts, benefits, builds, contributes, demonstrates, Drives, emphasizes, enables, engages, enhances, Facilitating, favors, foster, fostering, fosters, furthers, helps, Incentives, incites, inspires, instigates, invite, invites, makes, motivates, nurtures, offers, plans, procures, promote, promotes, provide, support, supporting, supports, takes.
• Verb, base form :
  abet, absorb, accelerate, accommodate, accomplish, achieve, acquire, act, active, add, address, adopt, advancement, advertise, advise, affect, afford, agree, aid, aim, alert, allow, animate, appeal, appear, argue, arise, arouse, arrange, ask, assert, assure, attain, augment, awaken, award, awareness, back, be, bear, benefit, bolster, boost, breathe, bring, broaden, build, buy, call, calls, carry, Catalyse, catalyze, cause, challenge, channel, cheer, come, command, commence, commit, compel, condone, consider, consolidate, constitute, continue, contribute, convince, courage, deepen, defend, demand, deploy, detect, development, direct, discourage, discover, discuss, draw, ease, educate, effect, embark, embolden, embrace, emphasise, emphasize, employ, empower, enable, encouragement, end, endorse, energize, enforce, engage, engender, enhance, enjoy, enlist, enliven, enrich, entail, entice, evoke, exacerbate, exhort, expand, expedite, explain, extend, facilitate, Facilitating, favor, feed, fight, find, focus, foment, force, forge, foster, fostering, free, fund, further, galvanise, generate, get, give, go, goal, groups, grow, guarantee, guide, have, heighten, help, hire, hold, hope, identify, ignite, impact, impel, implement, impose, improve, incentivize, incline, incur, induce, influence, inform, inject, insist, inspire, inspiring, instigate, instil, instill, institute, intensify, introduce, invest, invigorate, invite, involve, join, jump-start, justify, keep, kick-start, launch, lay, lead, lever, leverage, like, links, liven, lobby, locate, look, lure, maintain, make, manage, maximize, mean, mind, mobilise, motivate, move, objective, oblige, obtain, offer, open, operate, orchestrate, order, orient, participate, pave, permit, persuade, place, podporu, podpory, pose, precipitate, prefer, prescribe, pressure, prioritise, prioritize, privilege, proceed, progress, promote, promotion, propel, propose, protect, provide, provoke, publicize, pull, pursue, push, put, reach, realize, rebuild, receive, recommend, recruit, reduce, reinforce, reinvigorate, relaunch, rely, request, require, restart, result, retain, revitalize, revive, reward, safeguard, satisfy, search, secure, see, seek, seem, sensitize, serve, set, showcase, simulate, smooth, solicit, spark, spearhead, speed, sponsor, spread, spur, steer, step, stimulate, stir, stop, subscribe, subsidise, substantiate, suggest, supervise, support, supporting, sustain, take, tell, tempt, trace, train, translate, transport, transpose, travel, trigger, turn, underpin, unleash, upgrade, uphold, urge, Urged, urging, want, warn, welcome, welcomed, widen, win, wish, work.
• Verb, gerund or present participle :
  Abetting, accommodating, Advocating, Aiding, Aiming, Arousing, Assisting, Bolstering, bringing, building, calling, catalysing, catalyzing, causing, challenging, cheering, contributing, Cultivating, directing, drawing, Eliciting, emphasizing, engaging, Engendering, Enhancing, enlisting, enticing, Facilitating, Fanning, favoring, Favouring, Fomenting, foster, fostering, fuelling, Generating, getting, guiding, helping, hooking, Inciting, inducing, Influencing, inspiring, Instigating, instilling, inviting, keeping, Mobilizing, motivating, nourishing, Nurturing, Persuading, practicing, pressing, Procuring, promotes, Promoting, prompting, pushing, Recruiting, retaining, rewarding, Soliciting, sponsoring, spurring, stimulating, support, supporting, Sustaining, targeting, triggering, upgrading, urging.
• Verb, non-3rd person singular present :
  advancement, advertise, advise, agree, aim, allow, appeal, are, ask, back, benefit, bloom, boost, bring, build, buy, call, carry, cause, challenge, commence, commit, continue, contribute, demand, discourage, draw, enable, encouragement, endorse, engage, enhance, expand, expect, facilitate, favor, focus, foment, generate, get, give, Got, grow, have, help, hire, hope, Hotline, impel, improve, incur, influence, insist, inspire, instigate, invite, involve, lead, make, motivate, move, nourish, occur, offer, operate, permit, pray, prefer, promise, promote, provide, push, recommend, reinforce, request, require, result, seek, serve, simulate, sponsor, stimulate, subscribe, suggest, support, take, tend, That, think, to, urge, want, welcome, wish, wonder, work.
• Verb, past tense :
  abet, Created, enhance, enhanced, Enhancing, facilitate, facilitated, focused, foster, fostered, fostering, furtherance, Helped, helping, Nurtured, promote, Promoted, Promoting, promotion, started, stimulate, stimulating, support, supported, Urged.