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HEARTSOME

Definition: HEARTSOME

HEARTSOME

Adjective

1. Merry; cheerful; lively.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HEARTSOME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

Synonyms within Context: HEARTSOME

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Hope

Adjective: hoping; Verb: in hopes; Noun: hopeful, confident; secure; (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Derivations: HEARTSOME

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEARTSOME": heartsomely. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "HEARTSOME"

Words rhyming with "HEARTSOME" (pronounced 'Heart"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Blithesome, Brightsome, Darksome, Delightsome, Dinsome, Dolesome, Dullsome, Fearsome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, Hadsome, handsome, Healthsome, irksome, Joysome, Kirsome, Laughsome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Toysome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Unhandsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HEARTSOME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: teraohms, theorems.

-2 letters: aethers, earshot, emoters, hamster, hareems, heaters, heteros, maestro, meteors, mothers, reheats, remates, remotes, reteams, roseate, smother, steamer, teraohm, theorem, thermae, thermes, thermos.

-3 letters: aether, ahorse, ameers, aretes, armets, ashore, earths, easter, eaters, emoter, emotes, ethers, haeres, hareem, harems, haters, hearse, hearts, heater, hereat, hereto, hermae, heroes, hetero, hoarse, homers, horste, mahoes, masher, master, maters, matres, merest, meteor, meters, metres, metros, mosher, mother, oaters, orates, others, ramees, ramets, ramose, reheat, rehems, remate, remote, reseat, reshoe, reshot, reteam, retems, seamer, seater, shmear, stereo, stream, stroma, tamers, teaser, tharms, themes, theres, therme, therms, threes, throes, torahs.

-4 letters: ameer, amort, arete, armet, arose, aster, atoms, earth, eater, emote, erase, erose, ester, ether, ethos, haems, haets, hames, harem, hares, harms, harts, haste, hater, hates, hears, heart, heats, hemes, heres, herma, herms, heros, hoars, hoers, homer, homes, horas, horse, horst, hosta, mahoe, mares, marse, marsh, marts, maser, mater, mates, maths, meats, meets, meres, meter, metes, meths, metre, metro, moats, morae, moras, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, moths, oater, oaths, omers, orate, other, ramee, ramet, rates, rathe, ratos, reams, reest, rehem, remet, reset, retem, rheas, roams, roast, roset, rotas, rotes, saree, satem, setae, shame, share, shear, sheer, sheet, shoat, shoer, shore, short, shote, smart, smear, smote, stare, steam, steer, stere, stoae, stoma, store, storm, tahrs, tamer, tames, tares, taros, teams, tears, tease, teems, terms, terse, tharm, theme, there, therm, these, those, three, throe, toeas, tomes, torah, toras, tores, torse, trams, trash, trees.

-5 letters: aero, ahem, ares, arms, arse, arts, ates, atom, ears, ease, east, eath, eats, emes, eras, eros, erst, etas, eths, haem, haes, haet, hame, hams, hare, harm, hart, hast, hate, hats, hear, heat, heme, hems, here, herm, hero, hers, hest, hets, hoar, hoer, hoes, home, hora, hose, host, hots, maes, mare, mars, mart, mash, mast, mate, math, mats, meat, meet, mere, mesa, mesh, meta, mete, meth, mhos, moas, moat, mora, more, mors, mort, mosh, most, mote, moth, mots, oars, oast, oath, oats, ohms, omer, ores, orts, osar, rams, rase, rash, rate, rath, rato, rats, ream, rees, rems, resh, rest, rete, rets, rhea, rhos, roam, roes, roms, rose, rota, rote, rots, same, sate, seam, sear, seat, seem, seer, seme, sera, sere, seta, sham, shat, shea, shmo, shoe, shot, soar, soma, some, sora, sore, sort, soth, star, stem, stoa, tahr, tame, tams, taos, tare, taro, tars, team, tear, teas, teem, tees, term, thae, thee, them, thro, toea, toes, tome, toms, tora, tore, tors, tosh, tram, tree, tsar.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-m-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: atmosphere, hammertoes.

 

+2 letters: atmosphered, atmospheres, earthmovers, hatemongers, heartsomely, heteroatoms, homesteader, housemaster, metanephros, overmatches, tachometers, thermotaxes, whoremaster.

 

+3 letters: erythematous, gametophores, headforemost, heterogamies, heterogamous, homesteaders, housemasters, mesothoraces, mesothoraxes, metamorphose, metathoraces, metathoraxes, stenothermal, thermostable, thermostated, whoremasters.

 

+4 letters: dermatophytes, encroachments, flamethrowers, hemichordates, heterogametes, hymenopterans, magnetosphere, metamorphosed, metamorphoses, methotrexates, nitromethanes, saccharometer, spermatophore, spermatophyte, thermostatted, tracheotomies.

 

+5 letters: aromatherapies, cephalometries, chemotherapies, chemotherapist, cholestyramine, chrestomathies, countermarches, hemacytometers, hermaphrodites, heterogameties, heterothallism, hypermetropias, magnetospheres, magnetospheric, overenthusiasm, petrochemicals, pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes, rapprochements, rheumatologies, saccharometers, spermatophores, spermatophytes, stereochemical, thermographies, tracheostomies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HEARTSOME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 41 52 54 53 4F 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-    .-.    -    ...    ---    --    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01010011 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#83 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0053 004F 004D 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

423935525453494739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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