heartening
verbHow many syllables in heartening?
There are 3 syllables in the word heartening.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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