heartening
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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,… … Law dictionary
heartening — hearten ► VERB ▪ make more cheerful or confident. DERIVATIVES heartening adjective … English terms dictionary
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 / hÉ‘Ëtn 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
