different between encourage vs exhilarate

English

Alternative forms

• incourage (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier from en- +? corage "courage". Displaced native Middle English belden, bielden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bieldan (“to encourage”)), Middle English bealden, balden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bealdian (“to encourage, make bold”)), Middle English herten (“to encourage, enhearten”) (from Old English hiertan, hyrtan (“to enhearten”)), Old English elnian (“to encourage, strengthen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• Hyphenation: en?cour?age

Verb

encourage (third-person singular simple present encourages, present participle encouraging, simple past and past participle encouraged) (transitive)

1. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

   I encouraged him during his race.

2. To spur on, strongly recommend.

   We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

3. To foster, give help or patronage

   The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

Synonyms

• bield
• embolden

Antonyms

• becourage
• discourage

Derived terms

• encouragement
• encouraging
• encouragingly

Related terms

• courage

Translations

French

Verb

encourage

1. inflection of encourager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. singular imperative

English

Etymology

From Latin exhilar?re (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), from ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??s (“out”)) + hilar?re, present infinitive of hilar? (“to cheer, to gladden”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ????? (hílaos, “gracious, kind, propitious”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?lh?- (“comfort, mercy”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?l??e?t/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?l???e?t/, /??-/
• (General American)
• Hyphenation: ex?hil?a?rate

Verb

exhilarate (third-person singular simple present exhilarates, present participle exhilarating, simple past and past participle exhilarated)

1. (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
2. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.
   • 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 12.

     Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.

Synonyms

• (to cheer): enliven, stimulate

Derived terms

• exhilarating
• exhilarant
• exhilaratingly
• exhilaration
• exhilarator
• exhilaratory

Related terms

• hilarious
• hilariously
• hilariousness
• hilarity
• Hilary

Translations

Further reading

• exhilarate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exhilarate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Verb

exhilar?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exhilar?