All hearten synonyms
heart·en
H h verb hearten
- inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- comfort — If you are doing something in comfort, you are physically relaxed and contented, and are not feeling any pain or other unpleasant sensations.
- reassure — to restore to assurance or confidence: His praise reassured me.
- cheer — When people cheer, they shout loudly to show their approval or to encourage someone who is doing something such as taking part in a game.
- assure — If you assure someone that something is true or will happen, you tell them that it is definitely true or will definitely happen, often in order to make them less worried.
- arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
- animate — Something that is animate has life, in contrast to things like stones and machines which do not.
- buoy — A buoy is a floating object that is used to show ships and boats where they can go and to warn them of danger.
- steel — any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying according to composition and heat treatment: generally categorized as having a high, medium, or low-carbon content.
- console — If you console someone who is unhappy about something, you try to make them feel more cheerful.
- incite — to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action: to incite a crowd to riot.
- revivify — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- inspirit — to infuse spirit or life into; enliven.
- rally — to ridicule in a good-natured way; banter.
- rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
- stir — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
- stimulate — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- buck up — If you buck someone up or buck up their spirits, you say or do something to make them more cheerful.
- encourage — Give support, confidence, or hope to (someone).
- uplift — to lift up; raise; elevate.
- cheer up — When you cheer up or when something cheers you up, you stop feeling depressed and become more cheerful.
- gladden — to make glad.
- embolden — Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something or to behave in a certain way.
- energise — Alternative form of energize.
- energize — Give vitality and enthusiasm to.
- enliven — Make (something) more entertaining, interesting, or appealing.