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GOOD-HEARTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does good-hearted mean?
• GOOD-HEARTED (adjective)
The adjective GOOD-HEARTED has 1 sense:
1. showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
Familiarity information: GOOD-HEARTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
Synonyms:
benevolent; charitable; good-hearted; kindly; large-hearted; openhearted; sympathetic
Context example:
a large-hearted mentor
Similar:
kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)
Context examples
If he finds he can do more by and by, I dare say he will, for I am sure he must be an excellent good-hearted man.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
She is a good-hearted girl as ever lived.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“How very pleasing and proper of him!” cried the good-hearted Mrs. John Knightley.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk, for he seldom really went the whole way.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An excellent, good-hearted fellow, I assure you; a very active, zealous officer too, which is more than you would think for, perhaps, for that soft sort of manner does not do him justice.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I am extremely sorry for it—for I know him to be a very good-hearted creature; as well-meaning a fellow perhaps, as any in the world.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Though his eyes had been long opened, even before his acquaintance with Elinor began, to her ignorance and a want of liberality in some of her opinions—they had been equally imputed, by him, to her want of education; and till her last letter reached him, he had always believed her to be a well-disposed, good-hearted girl, and thoroughly attached to himself.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
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