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hearteningadjective having qualities which inspire hopea heartening visit to the hospital, where the patient was alert and sitting up auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched making one feel good insidehearing how his students still appreciated him after all those years was heartening to the music teacher cheering, comforting, encouraging, fulfilling, gladdening, gratifying, heartwarming, rewarding, satisfying affecting, inspiring, inspiriting, moving, poignant, stirring, touchingedifying, elevating, upliftingsympathetic, tenderkind, kindly, loving, warmanimating, enlivening, exciting, exhilarating, invigorating, rousing, stimulating, thrillingpleasing, pleasurable, welcoming demoralizing, depressing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting cheerless, disappointing, disgruntling, displeasing, dissatisfying, heartbreaking, heartrending, saddeningdiscomforting, disconcerting, dismaying, distressing, disturbing, upsettingcold, unfeeling, unfriendly, unkind, unloving, unpleasant pointing toward a happy outcomethe accomplishments of the first day were a heartening start to our renovation of the house auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, hopeful, promising, propitious fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening to fill with courage or strength of purposethinking we were hopelessly lost, we were heartened by the sight of a familiar farmhouse bearing up, bucking up, buoying (up), cheering (up), chirking (up), emboldening, encouraging, inspiring, inspiriting, steeling animating, enlivening, invigoratingenforcing, fortifying, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningassuring, reassuringboosting, energizing, exciting, galvanizing, provoking, quickening, rallying, stimulating, stirring daunting, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting demoralizing, depressing, saddeningdebilitating, enfeebling, hamstringing, undermining, weakeningintimidating, psyching (out) |