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heartening
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging |
| Synonyms: | cheering, hopeful, likely, promising, reassuring, supportive |
| Main Entry: | cheering |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, bright, comforting, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious |
| Antonyms: | dejecting, depressing, discouraging, disheartening |
| Main Entry: | heartwarming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pleasant |
| Synonyms: | cheering, encouraging, exhilarating, gladdening, heartening, heartfelt, inspiring, joyous, loving, stirring, sweet |
| Main Entry: | hopeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising, auspicious |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, arousing, beneficial, bright, cheerful, cheering, conducive, convenient, elating, encouraging, enlivening, exciting, expeditious, fair, favorable, fine, fit, flattering, fortifying, fortunate, golden, good, gracious, halcyon, heartening, helpful, inspiring, inspiriting, likely, lucky, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, probable, promiseful, propitious, providential, reasonable, reassuring, roseate, rosy, rousing, stirring, suitable, sunny, timely, uplifting, well-timed |
| Notes: | hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means expecting the best |
| Antonyms: | desperate, hopeless, inauspicious, pointless, unpromising, wretched |
| Main Entry: | joyful/joyous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | blithesome, cheerful, cheery, delighted, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, enjoyable, enraptured, expansive, festive, flying*, gay, glad, gladsome, gratified, heartening, high as a kite, high*, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, overjoyed, pleased, pleasurable, popping, rapturous, satisfied, sunny*, sunny-side up, transported, upbeat |
| Antonyms: | sad, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | upbeat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cheerful |
| Synonyms: | buoyant, cheery, encouraging, favorable, fond, happy, heartening, hopeful, optimistic, positive, promising, rosy, sanguine |
| Notes: | an emphasized beat is the downbeat and unemphasized beat is upbeat |
| Antonyms: | depressed, down, sad |
| Main Entry: | inspiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rousing |
| Synonyms: | animating, encouraging, enlivening, exalting, exciting, exhilarating, heartening, inspirational, inspiriting, motivating, moving, refreshing, stimulating, stirring, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | joyful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
| Synonyms: | blithesome, cheerful, cheery, delighted, doing handsprings, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, enjoyable, enraptured, expansive, festive, flipping, flying, gay, glad, gladsome, gratified, heartening, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, jubilant, lighthearted, merry, overjoyed, pleased, pleasurable, popping, rapturous, satisfied, sunny, transported, upbeat |
| Antonyms: | miserable, sad |
| Main Entry: | animate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring to life |
| Synonyms: | activate, arouse, cheer, embolden, encourage, energize, enliven, exalt, excite, fire, gladden, hearten, impel, incite, inform, inspire, inspirit, instigate, invigorate, kindle, liven, make alive, move, quicken, revive, revivify, rouse, spark, spur, stimulate, stir, urge, vitalize, vivify |
| Antonyms: | deaden, discourage, kill |
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