heartening
1heartening — I adjective assuring, auspicious, bright, cheerful, comforting, consoling, encouraging, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, full of promise, halcyonian, halcyonic, hopeful, opportune, optimistic, promising, propitious, providential, reassuring,… …
2heartening — hearten ► VERB ▪ make more cheerful or confident. DERIVATIVES heartening adjective …
3heartening — adjective cheerfully encouraging …
4heartening — Synonyms and related words: animating, assurance, assuring, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, emboldening, encouragement, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, glad, gladdening,… …
5heartening — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inspiring confidence or hope: cheering, encouraging, hopeful, likely, promising. See HELP …
6heartening — heart·en || hÉ‘rtn / hÉ‘Ëtn v. comfort; encourage; cheer …
7heartening — See: hearten …
8heartening — adjective cheerfully encouraging (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑inspiriting • Similar to: ↑encouraging …
9encouraging piece of news — heartening bit of information, reassuring or comforting information …
10hearten — [[t]hɑ͟ː(r)t(ə)n[/t]] heartens, heartening, heartened VERB If someone is heartened by something, it encourages them and makes them cheerful. [be V ed] He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday... [V n] The news …
