Word family noun heart heartlessness heartiness adjective heartened ≠ disheartened heartening ≠ disheartening heartless hearty verb hearten ≠ dishearten adverb heartily heartlessly hearteningly ≠ dishearteningly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishheartenheart‧en /ˈhɑːtn $ ˈhɑːr-/ verb [transitive] HAPPYto make someone feel happier and more hopeful OPP dishearten I was heartened to see her looking so well.Grammar Hearten is usually passive. —heartening adjective —hearteningly adverb→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
hearten• The administration was heartened by the U.N. vote.• The sight of the flames leaping up did much to hearten me.• There was hot, spiced wine to hearten the bride, who drank it gratefully.• It would hearten the many feminists who crowded the church that night without contradicting the teachings of the magisterium. 