Meanings
comparative more heartening · superlative most heartening
- 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 2016Antonyms: disheartening
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hearten
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCheerfully encouraging.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecheerfully encouraging
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bulgarian насърчителен, окуражителен
- насърчителен (nasărčitelen)cheerfully encouraging
- окуражителен (okuražitelen)cheerfully encouraging
Chinese Mandarin 可喜
- 可喜 (kěxǐ)cheerfully encouraging
Finnish rohkaiseva
- rohkaisevacheerfully encouraging
French encourageant
- encourageantcheerfully encouraging
German ermutigend
- ermutigendcheerfully encouraging
Italian rincuorante
- rincuorantecheerfully encouraging
Japanese 心強い
- 心強い (kokorodzuyoi)cheerfully encouraging
Russian отра́дный, воодушевля́ющий
- отра́дный (otrádnyj)cheerfully encouraging
- воодушевля́ющий (vooduševljájuščij)cheerfully encouraging
Spanish alentador
- alentadorcheerfully encouraging
Cite this entry
heartening. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartening
“heartening.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartening. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heartening,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heartening.
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