heartening

1. 1.

   cheerfully encouraging

   Synonymsinspiriting

   Similarencouraging

Questions about heartening

What does heartening mean?

heartening means "cheerfully encouraging".

How many syllables are in heartening?

heartening has 3 syllables: hear-te-ning. The stress falls on "hear". In IPA it is /ˈhɑɹtənɪŋ/.

What is another word for heartening?

Close synonyms include inspiriting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heartening a common word?

heartening is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.