heartening (adj.)

• animating
• assuring
• cheerful
• cheering
• cheery
• comforting
• condolent
• consolatory
• consoling
• encouraging
• enlivening
• exhilarating
• glad
• hospitable
• inspiring
• inspiriting
• invigorating
• joyful
• reassuring
• relieving
• supportive
• sympathetic