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heartening en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. 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:

Forms

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most heartening Degree=Sup lexicographic
more heartening Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Antonyms

disheartening

Deriveds

hearteningly · unheartening

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)

heartening en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of hearten
    form of hearten