hortative

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
2. adjective Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.
3. noun A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.

Similar words

exhortative hortatory exhortatory encouraging incitant agitatory urgent insistent compellatory entreatful

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Word family

hortatively