Heartening

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  heartening
       adj : cheerfully encouraging [syn: {inspiriting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "heartening":


     animating, assurance, assuring, cheerful, cheering, cheery,
     comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory,
     consoling, emboldening, encouragement, encouraging, enlivening,
     exhilarating, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, hospitable,
     inspiration, inspiring, inspiriting, inspiritment, invigorating,
     joyful, of good comfort, reassurance, reassuring, relieving,
     supportive, sympathetic