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warmhearted

adjective warm·heart·ed \ˈwȯrm-ˈhär-təd\

: having or showing kindness, sympathy, and affection

Full Definition of WARMHEARTED

:  marked by ready affection, cordiality, generosity, or sympathy
— warm·heart·ed·ness noun
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First Known Use of WARMHEARTED

circa 1520

Related to WARMHEARTED

Synonyms
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, humane
Antonyms
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton

Rhymes with WARMHEARTED

bighearted, coldhearted, departed, downhearted, fainthearted, freehearted, good-hearted, greathearted, halfhearted, hard-hearted, ironhearted, kindhearted, largehearted, lighthearted, proudhearted, softhearted, stouthearted, truehearted, uncharted, weakhearted, wholehearted

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