Synonyms for Heartening:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • inspiriting.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • upbeat.
  •encouraging (adjective)
  • cheering,
  • likely,
  • hopeful,
  • promising,
  • reassuring,
  • supportive.
  •heartwarming (adjective)
  • Gladdening,
  • heartwarming.

• n.

  •
  • hopeful,
  • likely,
  • promising.
  •heartening (noun)
  • inspiriting,
  • encouraging.

• v.

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

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • encouragement.
  •
  • promising.
  •
  • likely.
  •encouraging
  • hopeful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • delightful,
  • uplifting,
  • prodding,
  • support,
  • Condoling,
  • educational,
  • animation,
  • joyous,
  • supportive,
  • stimulus,
  • pat on the back,
  • auspicious,
  • Emboldening,
  • energizing,
  • embolden,
  • invigorating,
  • encouragement,
  • Promoting,
  • propitious,
  • elating,
  • consolatory,
  • exhortation,
  • hearten,
  • Recreating,
  • inspiritment,
  • favourable,
  • Relieving,
  • cheerful,
  • rosy,
  • exhilarating,
  • good,
  • vitalizing,
  • strengthening,
  • spur,
  • condolent,
  • encourage,
  • sympathetic,
  • hopeful,
  • assuring,
  • Elevating,
  • comforting,
  • assurance,
  • exhort,
  • Condolatory,
  • barracking,
  • Exhorting,
  • sanguine,
  • optimistic,
  • heart-warming,
  • stimulating,
  • urging,
  • promising,
  • rewarding,
  • bright,
  • heartwarming,
  • spurring,
  • positive,
  • supporting,
  • Bolstering,
  • likely,
  • stimulation,
  • cheery,
  • inspiration,
  • promotion,
  • happy,
  • Countenancing,
  • reassurance,
  • hospitable,
  • glad,
  • satisfying,
  • Light-hearted,
  • buoyant,
  • animating,
  • incitement,
  • upbeat,
  • fortifying,
  • inspiriting,
  • innervation,
  • joyful,
  • reassuring,
  • Inciting,
  • recreate,
  • cheer,
  • full of promise.

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.