Usually means: Encouraging, uplifting, boosting morale significantly.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartening: Merriam-Webster
  2. heartening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heartening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heartening, heartening: Wordnik
  5. heartening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heartening: Wiktionary
  7. heartening: Dictionary.com
  8. heartening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. heartening: Rhymezone
  10. heartening: FreeDictionary.org
  11. heartening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. heartening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heartening: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heartening)

▸ adjective:  Cheerfully encouraging.

Similar:
encouraging, inspiriting, uplifting, cheerable, cheerful, promising, light, hopeful, hearty, cordial, more...

Opposite:
discouraging, disheartening, dismal, bleak

Types:
encouraging, heartwarming, inspiring, uplifting, reassuring, comforting, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, particularly, real, mighty

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     soft pink,     lavender,     mint green, more...

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Similar:
encouraging, inspiriting, uplifting, cheerable, cheerful, promising, light, hopeful, hearty, cordial, more...

Opposite:
discouraging, disheartening, dismal, bleak

Types:
encouraging, heartwarming, inspiring, uplifting, reassuring, comforting, more...

Adjectives:
most, least, particularly, real, mighty

Colors:
    sunshine yellow,     sky blue,     soft pink,     lavender,     mint green, more...



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