Synonyms for Heartening:

• adj.

  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •encouraging (adjective)
  • supportive,
  • reassuring.
  •heartwarming (adjective)
  • heartwarming.

• n.

  •
  • promising,
  • likely.

• 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.