heartening

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