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good-hearted

/ɡʊd.hɑː.təd/US/ɡʊd.hɑɹ.təd/

good-hearted adjective: kind and well-intentioned.

Adjective

good-hearted (comparative more good-hearted or better-hearted, superlative most good-hearted or best-hearted)

  1. (idiomatic) Kind and well-intentioned.
    • Good-hearted fellows in their way, true to each other, and invariably gentle and courteous to women, is the much-maligned and misunderstood digger.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 192
    • It’s sweet of you to forgive her, Emily dear. You are better-hearted than I am. I’m afraid I could never pardon any one who had made me such a laughing stock.1925, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “A Supreme Moment”, in Emily Climbs, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, page 130

good-hearted meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Gujarati

good-hearted in Tamil

இரக்க மனமுடைய

good-hearted in Urdu

good-hearted
سمن suman

good-hearted in Bengali

দয়ালু এবং সদুদ্দেশ্যপ্রণোদিত

good-hearted in Gujarati

good-hearted
સાદું sādũ
More languagesFewer languages
good-hearted in Sanskrit
सुहृद् suhṛd

Forms of good-hearted

comparativemore good-hearted
comparativebetter-hearted
superlativemost good-hearted
superlativebest-hearted
alternative formgoodhearted

Origin of good-hearted

From Middle English gode herted.

Words formed from good-hearted

Questions about good-hearted

What does good-hearted mean?
Good-hearted means kind and well-intentioned.
What is good-hearted in Tamil?
Good-hearted in Tamil is இரக்க மனமுடைய. See Good-hearted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is good-hearted?
Good-hearted is an adjective.
How do you pronounce good-hearted?
Good-hearted is pronounced /ɡʊd.hɑː.təd/.

Words near good-hearted in the dictionary

  1. good-for-nothing
  2. good-for-nothingest
  3. good-for-nothingness
  4. good-for-nothings
  5. good-good
  6. good-hearted
  7. good-heartedly
  8. good-heartedness
  9. Good-Henry
  10. good-humor
  11. good-humored

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: good-hearted (page history and authors); good-hearted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سمن (Urdu) (page history and authors); good-hearted (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); સાદું (Gujarati) (page history and authors); सुहृद् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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