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WARM-HEARTED

Definition: WARM-HEARTED

WARM-HEARTED

Adjective

1. Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WARM-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Synonyms within Context: WARM-HEARTED

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

Benevolence

Warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad-hearted; merciful; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Friendship

Adjective: friendly; amicable, amical; well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: WARM-HEARTED

English words defined with "WARM-HEARTED": kindness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: WARM-HEARTED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Front Porch Tales: Warm-Hearted Stories of Family, Faith, Laughter and Love (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: WARM-HEARTED

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Tanzania

Tanzanians are generally polite, helpful and warm-hearted. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: WARM-HEARTED

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989Those are the warm-hearted whose numbers we can't begin to count who'll begin the day with a little prayer for hostages they will never know and MIA families they will never meet.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: WARM-HEARTED

"WARM-HEARTED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WARM-HEARTED" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4849,194

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: WARM-HEARTED

Language Translations for "WARM-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏كريم (benign, big hearted, cream, custard, decent, generous, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, high minded, honorable, honourable, kind, kindly, lavish, liberal, noble, noble-minded, obliging, open handed, precious, respectable, valuable), ‏ودود (amiable, chummy, friendly, genial), ‏طيب القلب (good hearted, goodness). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

親熱 (affectionate, intimate), 热心 (Ardent, Enthusiastic, Zest). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lämminsydäminen. (various references)

   

German

  

warmherzig (caring, warm hearted, warmhearted), großzügig (ambitious, bounteous, bountiful, bountifully, broad, broad minded, broadminded, charitably, free, freehanded, generous, generously, handsome, handsomely, large, large scale, lavish, lavishly, liberal, liberally, lordly, noble, open handed, spacious, tolerant, ungrudging, ungrudgingly, unsparing, unsparingly, unstinting, unstintingly), gemütvoll (sentimental). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καλόκαρδοσ (genial, kind hearted, tender-hearted). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

jóságos (benign, benignant, bland, have a big heart, kindly). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

peramah (backslapper, companionable, humane). (various references)

   

Italian

  

espansivo (demonstrative, dilatable, distensible, effusive, expansive, malleable, outgoing), cordiale (cordial, genial, hearty, neighborly, neighbourly, pick me up, restorative, sociable, sympathetic, warm, wholehearted), caloroso (hearty, warm), affettuoso (affectionate, cordial, endearing, fond, hearty, loving). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ハート"ル法 (barrier-free, computer hardware, disabled or senior-friendly, emotionally uplifting, feel-good, hard, hard court, hard drink, hard sell, hard training, hardboard, hard-boiled, hard-copy, hard-core, hard-core porno, hard-cover, hard-disk, hard-link, hardtop, heartbreak, heart-warming, hurdle, hurdling, nickname of a Building Access law). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ハートフル (barrier-free, disabled or senior-friendly, emotionally uplifting, feel-good, heart-warming). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

친 한 (kind). (various references)

   

Manx

  

cheh-chreeagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arm-heartedway

   

Portuguese

  

generoso (big heart, boon, bounteous, chivalrous, enlarged, flush, generous, large, large handed, large minded, large-hearted, lavish, magnate, open-hearted, selfless, soft-hearted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, whole-souled), compassivo (compassionate, condolatory, humanely, merciful, mild cigarette, open-hearted, soft, tender-hearted), bondoso (affable, benevolent, big heart, charitable, friendly, generous, gentle, good, kind, kind hearted, kind of, large-hearted). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

участливый (warmhearted), сердечный (cardiac, cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, kind, warm, warmhearted), добрый (beneficent, big-hearted, genial, gentle, good, good hearted, good natured, gracious, kind, kindhearted, kind-hearted, kindly, open-hearted, tenderhearted, tender-hearted). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

srdačan (cordial, friendly, genial, hearty, kind, open armed, outgiving, true-hearted, warm, warmhearted), prijateljski (amicable, friendly, neighborly, neighbourly, warmhearted). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

de buen corazón (avuncular, good hearted, kind hearted). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

varmhjärtad (large-hearted, open-hearted). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

iyi kâlpli (benign, benignant, bighearted, decent, good hearted, grandfatherly, great-hearted, kind, kind hearted, kindhearted, kindly, large-hearted, warmhearted), cana yakın (amiable, approachable, congenial, conversable, forthcoming, friendly, genial, gracious, hail-fellow-well-met, lovable, personable, sympathetic, warmhearted). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сердечний (hearty, kind, warm), співчутливий (feeling, friendly, remorseful, sympathetic). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhiệt tình; tốt bụng, nhiệt tâm (ardour, zeal, zealousness). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

twymgalon. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "WARM-HEARTED"

Words rhyming with "WARM-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Warm"-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Dim-sighted, Discalceated, Dog-headed, Dog-hearted, Double-breasted, Doublethreaded, Dough-kneaded. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WARM-HEARTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: warmhearted.

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-m-r-r-t-w"

-2 letters: earthward, headwater.

-3 letters: aweather, demerara, hardware, meathead, redreamt, rethread, rewarmed, threader, wheatear, wreathed.

-4 letters: adherer, aerated, amreeta, awardee, awarder, dewater, dreamer, earthed, edemata, hearted, hetaera, rearmed, redream, redware, reheard, remated, retread, tarweed, teaware, thermae, thrawed, treader, warhead, watered, waterer, weather, whereat, wrathed, wreathe.

-5 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, darter, dearer, dearth, derate, dharma, drawee, drawer.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-m-r-r-t-w"
 

+4 letters: warmheartedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WARM-HEARTED


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

57 41 52 4D 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44

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

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

01010111 01000001 01010010 01001101 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#82 &#77 &#45 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0052 004D 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044

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

573552471542393552543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Quotations: Speeches
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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