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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

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

fortuitous, fortunate, 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

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  1. Nglish: Translation of heartening for Spanish speakers

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