Meaning & use
Empowering
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Giving someone greater confidence, authority, or control over their own life and decisions.
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Learning to drive was an empowering experience for her.
The workshop aims to be empowering for young entrepreneurs.
A note on using this word
Though "empowering" is now common in self-help and business language, the underlying verb "empower" originally meant simply "to grant legal authority."
Words with a similar meaning
encouragingliberating
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Words with an opposite meaning
discouragingdisempowering
Another way to use it
2. verb
Giving official authority or legal power to someone.
The new law is empowering local councils to set their own tax rates.
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