Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a heart of a specified kind: generally used in figurative senses, and in composition: as, hardhearted, faint-hearted, etc.
- Taken to heart; laid up or seated in the heart.
- Composed of hearts.
- Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a heart; having (such) a heart (regarded as the seat of the affections, disposition, or character).
- adjective rare Shaped like a heart; cordate.
- adjective Seated or laid up in the heart.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
heart . - adjective in combination Having, or shaped like, a specified form of
heart .
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Examples
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If he sees her from afar, he will see her broken hearted from a distance. it would be almost like the character is dead …
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I'm not sure if light-hearted is the right word for a story that includes cannibalism, forced prostitution, involuntary amputation, and starvation.
A Conversation with David Benioff about The City of Thieves 2010
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If his being good-hearted allows the abuse of millions of Americans, how good-hearted is he, really?
Send in the Clowns 2010
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Trying to end a war by calling on everyone to be cooperative, decent and good-hearted is like appealing to the humane instincts of Mafia capi.
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Trying to end a war by calling on everyone to be cooperative, decent and good-hearted is like appealing to the humane instincts of Mafia capi.
Stromata Blog: 2006
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That tradition, itself part of the European tradition, a tradition old and grey-haired, perhaps, and certainly restrained and reticent, yet for all that still fiery-hearted, is a compound of the greatest religious urge which the world has seen, that of Judah, and the greatest artistic urge which the world has seen, that of Greece.
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They began by his being happy and light-hearted, that is, he was
The Devil's Garden W. B. Maxwell 1902
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I am afraid, little sister mine, you are either a very great hypocrite, or very cold-hearted, which is it, dearest
Valerie Frederick Marryat 1820
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This is addressed to the stout-hearted, that is, either, (1.)
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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If I come off as cold-hearted, that is because I know you can't get things done by tip-toeing around a person's feelings.
The Troy Messenger 2009
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