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Synonyms for hortatory

  • adjective

Most common

exhortatory exhortative hortative encouraging persuasive homiletic monitory protreptic

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Exhortatory

exhortatory, exhortative, hortative

Other

encouraging, persuasive, homiletic, monitory, protreptic

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging.

Example sentences

  • encouraging Tom keeps encouraging Mary to do things on her own.
  • persuasive Tom is listened to because of his persuasive power.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hortatorysteady
exhortatorysteady
exhortativesteady
hortativesteady
encouragingsteady
persuasivesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

8 letters
monitory
9 letters
homiletic4, hortative
10 letters
persuasive3, protreptic
11 letters
encouraging4, exhortatory, exhortative

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (homiletic4 = 4 syllables).