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Adjective heartening has 1 sense
  1. heartening, inspiriting - cheerfully encouraging
    Antonym: discouraging (indirect, via encouraging)
,Verb hearten has 1 sense
  1. cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden - give encouragement to
    --1 is one way to encourage
    Antonyms: dishearten, put off
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to hearten Sue
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