HEARTFELT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartfelt mean? 

• HEARTFELT (adjective)
  The adjective HEARTFELT has 1 sense:

1. sincerely earnest

  Familiarity information: HEARTFELT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTFELT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sincerely earnest

Synonyms:

dear; devout; earnest; heartfelt

Context example:

heartfelt condolences

Similar:

sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)

 Context examples 

During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Maria is nobly married; but had Mr. Crawford sought Julia's hand, I should have given it to him with superior and more heartfelt satisfaction than I gave Maria's to Mr. Rushworth.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Alleyne Edricson bent his head while the Abbot poured out his heartfelt supplication that Heaven would watch over this young soul, now going forth into the darkness and danger of the world.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities, was the reflection that all necessity of concealment from Mr. Knightley would soon be over.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I am not referring to casual dating or a roll in the hay, but rather real and heartfelt love, the kind of love you will want to treasure, nurture, and build your life upon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I had two or three shillings of my week's money in my pocket—from which I presume that it must have been on a Wednesday night when we held this conversation—and I hastily produced them, and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to accept of them as a loan.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Catherine listened with heartfelt satisfaction.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Professor Krempe often asked me, with a sly smile, how Cornelius Agrippa went on, whilst M. Waldman expressed the most heartfelt exultation in my progress.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)