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all heart

all heart adjective: motivated by positive emotions, especially as productive of exceptionally generous or kind behavior.

Adjective

all heart (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Motivated by positive emotions, especially as productive of exceptionally generous or kind behavior.
    • "[F]ar from wanting feeling, Charlotte Henley is all heart. To use your own language," she added, turning her eyes towards him archly, "it is for her heart that I most love her."1823, James Fenimore Cooper, Tales for Fifteen or, Imagination and Heart
    • Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster—the tough guy who really is all heart.1969 January 17, "Books: His Life and Crimes" (review of The Valachi Papers by Peter Maas), Time (retrieved 2 May 2019)

Questions about all heart

What does all heart mean?
All heart means motivated by positive emotions, especially as productive of exceptionally generous or kind behavior.
What part of speech is all heart?
All heart is an adjective.

Words near all heart in the dictionary

  1. all hands to the deck
  2. all hands to the pump
  3. all hat and no cattle
  4. all hat and no cowboy
  5. all hat, no ranch
  6. all heart
  7. all hell breaks loose
  8. all hell broke loose
  9. all holiday
  10. All Holiness
  11. All Holinesses

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