heartening

heartening
I adjective assuring, auspicious, bright, cheerful, comforting, consoling, encouraging, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, full of promise, halcyonian, halcyonic, hopeful, opportune, optimistic, promising, propitious, providential, reassuring, roseate, salubrious, salutary II index propitious

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  • heartening — hearten ► VERB ▪ make more cheerful or confident. DERIVATIVES heartening adjective …   English terms dictionary

  • heartening — adjective cheerfully encouraging …   Wiktionary

  • heartening — Synonyms and related words: animating, assurance, assuring, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, emboldening, encouragement, encouraging, enlivening, exhilarating, glad, gladdening,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • heartening — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inspiring confidence or hope: cheering, encouraging, hopeful, likely, promising. See HELP …   English dictionary for students

  • heartening — heart·en || hÉ‘rtn / hɑːtn v. comfort; encourage; cheer …   English contemporary dictionary

  • heartening — See: hearten …   English dictionary

  • heartening — adjective cheerfully encouraging (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑inspiriting • Similar to: ↑encouraging …   Useful english dictionary

  • encouraging piece of news — heartening bit of information, reassuring or comforting information …   English contemporary dictionary

  • hearten — [[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 …   English dictionary

  • hopeful — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Optimistic] Syn. expectant, assured, sanguine, buoyant, enthusiastic, trustful, reassured, emboldened, full of hope, faithful, cheerful, anticipative, anticipating, trusting, inspirited, expecting, anticipatory, at ease …   English dictionary for students

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