| 单词 | heartening |
| 释义 | heartening (once / 10296 pages) adj Something heartening reassures or inspires you. You'll feel better after struggling with a long English essay when you read your teacher's heartening comments. If you're halfway through a marathon, the sight of your friends cheering you on is heartening. A shy new student will also find the warm welcome he gets from his classmates to be extremely heartening. This cheerful adjective comes from the verb hearten. "give confidence," or "encourage," which is rooted in a figurative sense of heart — to "give heart to" means "to give confidence to." WORD FAMILYheartening: hearteningly+/dishearten: disheartened, disheartening, disheartenment, disheartens/disheartened: disheartenedly/disheartening: dishearteningly/disheartenment: disheartenments/hearten: dishearten, heartened, heartening, heartens USAGE EXAMPLESBoxer, who will leave her Senate post in January, called such reports “heartening.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 23, 2016) Apart from unfair justice, It is heartening to see how bad judgement of few professionals damages our international image. New York Times(Oct 12, 2016) That is heartening for the sector if not conclusive. Wall Street Journal(Dec 06, 2016) adj cheerfully encouraging Syn inspiriting, uplifting encouraging giving courage or confidence or hope |
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