heartening en · ADJ
Meanings
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Cheerfully encouraging.
All in all, 'Reticent Bodies' is a heartening discovery, and each subsequent reading will yield a quiet pleasure. Just as his work four years ago suggested, Surani is a writer striving to express his view of the world in his own way, and he’s finding his ‘tilt.’ Readers will anticipate more.
2015, Alex Boyd, Ingrid Ruthig, “Review: Reticent Bodies”, in nprarchived, WordPress, archived from the original on 06 May 2016:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most heartening | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more heartening | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
bg насърчителен (cheerfully encouraging) · ru воодушевля́ющий (cheerfully encouraging) · ru отра́дный (cheerfully encouraging) · fi rohkaiseva (cheerfully encouraging) · fr encourageant (cheerfully encouraging) · bg окуражителен (cheerfully encouraging) · ja 心強い (cheerfully encouraging) · es alentador (cheerfully encouraging) · it rincuorante (cheerfully encouraging) · cmn 可喜 (cheerfully encouraging) · de ermutigend (cheerfully encouraging)