encourage

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Reassuring
assure someone of something
be/take a weight off your mindidiom
calm (someone) down
comforting
consolation
console
consoling
consolingly
lift
lighten
mind
reassurance
reassure
reassuring
set/put someone's mind at rest/easeidiom
settle down
tabling
they should worry!idiom
weight
you do you idiom

hearten | American Dictionary

hearten
verb[ T ]
us/ˈhɑrt·ən/
to encourage and make confident and happy:
We were heartened by the news that Jason is feeling so much better.

Examples of hearten

hearten
It is heartening that they partially overcame these reservations through visits to schools and contact with enthusiastic practitioners.
It is most heartening that even the most theoretical of papers in this symposium are working with actual implementations.
There was clearly some difference of opinion, which is heartening, as the author teams were asked to assign confidence limits to their major findings.
Some of these discs are less memorable musically than others, but it is heartening that they even exist.
This said, we are heartened by the fact that all significant associations uncovered in this study turned up in the hypothesized direction.
It was therefore heartening that more than 80 per cent of the respondents maintained a sense of usefulness.
That was very heartening as it seemed that people cared for the right reason.
In addition, she is heartened by the messages from former pupils passed on to her through her own children.
It is heartening to read two text books which reflect so many of the changes currently occurring in the field of ageing and mental health.
Much is still done informally here with heartening warmth and enthusiasm.
It is heartening that peripatetic teachers want such growth to hinge on pedagogy.
They could be a focus of personal loyalty to a commanding officer, but they could also express heartening insult and defiance to the enemy.
It is heartening to read this eloquent call for more appropriate research with great apes.
Blaikie challenges these ideas with a freshness and lucidity that is heartening.
It is heartening to learn that these newer practitioners of the discipline are committed to addressing not only their colleagues, but a larger readership beyond the academy.
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