Synonyms for Heartening:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • heartening.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •encouraging (adjective)
  • supportive,
  • reassuring.
  •heartwarming (adjective)
  • heartwarming.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • well timed,
  • promiseful.
  •inspiring (adjective)
  • most exalting,
  • in spiring,
  • more exalting,
  • most inspirational,
  • more motivating,
  • in-spiring,
  • more inspirational,
  • most motivating.
  •joyful (adjective)
  • doing handsprings,
  • Flipping.
  •joyful/joyous (adjective)
  • de-lighted,
  • most enraptured,
  • sunnyside up,
  • trans ported,
  • most joyous,
  • more joyous,
  • more gladsome,
  • high as kite,
  • most gladsome,
  • de lighted,
  • more popping,
  • over joyed,
  • over-joyed,
  • more enraptured,
  • most popping.
  •upbeat (adjective)
  • up beat,
  • up-beat.

• n.

  •
  • help,
  • likely,
  • promising.

• v.

  •cheering (verb)
  • comforting,
  • consoling,
  • Gladdening,
  • pleasing,
  • enlivening,
  • lightening,
  • Brightening.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • encouragement.

Paraphrases for Heartening:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    encouraging, pleasing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    encouraging.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inspiring, rewarding, stimulating, satisfying, hopeful, welcome, supportive, delighted, pleased, Nurturing, positive.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Furthering, helping, invigorating, Instigating, supporting, Facilitating, cheering, Advocating, engaging, emphasizing, investing, advancing, enabling, prompting, inviting, Favouring, Promoting, sponsoring, fostering, comforting, urging, conforming, rejoicing, pushing, pursuing, Boosting, Fulfilling, complying, calling, inspiring, promising, stimulating, satisfying, Nurturing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    gratifying, comforting, reassuring, exciting, uplifting, refreshing, encouraged, promising, exhilarating.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    gratifying, reassuring, pleasing.

Antonyms for Heartening:

• adj.

  • Other antonyms:
    desperate, Dissatisfying, catastrophic, uncertain, minatory, disconcerting, unloving, unpromising, fatal, cheerless, funereal, ruinous, foreboding, unlikely, menacing, glum, ill, unpleasant, downbeat, calamitous, bleak, portentous, negative, threatening, gray, dismal, disastrous, dubious, inauspicious, dim, depressing, sinister, unhappy, direful, doubtful, grim, disheartening, saddening, dark, unfeeling, disappointing, futureless, miserable, heartbreaking, dispiriting, ominous, discouraging, pessimistic, upsetting, baleful, unpropitious, unlucky, demoralizing, distressing, hopeless, unfriendly, dire, dreary, unkind, wretched, disturbing, comfortless, gloomy, cold, bearish, Ill-boding, heartrending, unfavorable, doomy, unfortunate, unencouraging, dismaying, displeasing.