heartening
Other forms: hearteningly
Something heartening reassures or inspires you. You'll feel better after struggling with a long English essay when you read your teacher's heartening comments.
If you're halfway through a marathon, the sight of your friends cheering you on is heartening. A shy new student will also find the warm welcome he gets from his classmates to be extremely heartening. This cheerful adjective comes from the verb hearten. "give confidence," or "encourage," which is rooted in a figurative sense of heart — to "give heart to" means "to give confidence to."
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cheerfully encouragingsynonyms: inspiriting, upliftingencouraginggiving courage or confidence or hope
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Vocabulary lists containing heartening
In the midst of WWII, Lizzie, Karli, and their mother are forced to flee their home to escape the bombings. But theirs is an extraordinary trek to safety because of their two traveling companions: Marlene, an orphaned elephant, and Peter, a Canadian navigator whose plane was shot down over enemy territory.
Learn this list of synonyms for favorable.