heartening

Definitions

Causing someone to feel more cheerful or optimistic.

Encouraging or inspiring hope.

Examples

It was heartening to see the community come together to support the local food bank.

The team's heartening performance in the second half gave the fans hope for a comeback.

Receiving such a heartening response from the audience made all the hard work worthwhile.

Synonyms

encouraging uplifting inspiring cheering reassuring promising hopeful

Antonyms

discouraging disheartening depressing dismaying gloomy pessimistic demoralizing