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heartening
verb
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Divide heartening into syllables:

heart · en · ing

How to pronounce heartening:

Definition of heartening:

heartening (verb):
to give heart to cheer

Synonyms for heartening:

auspicious
bright
cheerful
cheering
comforting
encouraging
fair
glad
golden
good
happy
hopeful
joyful
joyous
likely
optimistic
positive
promising
propitious
reassuring
rosy
upbeat

Antonyms for heartening:

adverse
alarmist
bad
baleful
baneful
bearish
bitter
black
bleak
bodeful
cheerless
chilling
cloudy
cold
cool
creepy
cursed
cynical
dark
defeatist
dejected
demoralised
demoralized
depressed
depressing
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