heartening

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
heartening
    adj 1: cheerfully encouraging [syn: {heartening}, {inspiriting}]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "heartening":
      animating, assurance, assuring, cheerful, cheering, cheery,
      comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory,
      consoling, emboldening, encouragement, encouraging, enlivening,
      exhilarating, glad, gladdening, heart-warming, hospitable,
      inspiration, inspiring, inspiriting, inspiritment, invigorating,
      joyful, of good comfort, reassurance, reassuring, relieving,
      supportive, sympathetic

    

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