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heartening

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of heartening

1 having qualities which inspire hope

a heartening visit to the hospital, where the patient was alert and sitting up

Synonyms of heartening

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat

Words Related to heartening

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good

Near Antonyms of heartening

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched

Antonyms of heartening

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 making one feel good inside

hearing how his students still appreciated him after all those years was heartening to the music teacher

Synonyms of heartening

cheering, comforting, encouraging, fulfilling, gladdening, gratifying, heartwarming, rewarding, satisfying

Words Related to heartening

affecting, inspiring, inspiriting, moving, poignant, stirring, touching

edifying, elevating, uplifting

sympathetic, tender

kind, kindly, loving, warm

animating, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, invigorating, rousing, stimulating, thrilling

pleasing, pleasurable, welcoming

Near Antonyms of heartening

cheerless, disappointing, disgruntling, displeasing, dissatisfying, heartbreaking, heartrending, saddening

discomforting, disconcerting, dismaying, distressing, disturbing, upsetting

cold, unfeeling, unfriendly, unkind, unloving, unpleasant

Antonyms of heartening

demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting

3 pointing toward a happy outcome

the accomplishments of the first day were a heartening start to our renovation of the house

Synonyms of heartening

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, hopeful, promising, propitious

Words Related to heartening

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary

Near Antonyms of heartening

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening

Antonyms of heartening

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

heartening

verb , present participle of hearten

Synonyms and Antonyms of heartening

to fill with courage or strength of purpose

thinking we were hopelessly lost, we were heartened by the sight of a familiar farmhouse

Synonyms of heartening

bearing up, bucking up, buoying (up), cheering (up), chirking (up), emboldening, encouraging, inspiring, inspiriting, steeling

Words Related to heartening

animating, enlivening, invigorating

enforcing, fortifying, reinforcing (also reenforcing), strengthening

assuring, reassuring

boosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring

Near Antonyms of heartening

demoralizing, depressing, saddening

debilitating, enfeebling, hamstringing, undermining, weakening

intimidating, psyching (out)

Antonyms of heartening

daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting

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