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heart-shaped

heart-shaped adjective: having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.

heart-shaped: having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at...
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Adjective

heart-shaped (not generally comparable, comparative more heart-shaped, superlative most heart-shaped)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
    • […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
    • It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80
    Synonyms:
    cordate, cordiform

heart-shaped meaning in Tamil

heart-shaped in Tamil

இருதய வடிவம்போல் அமைந்துள்ள

Synonyms of heart-shaped

Forms of heart-shaped

comparativemore heart-shaped
superlativemost heart-shaped

Questions about heart-shaped

What does heart-shaped mean?
Heart-shaped means having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
What is heart-shaped in Tamil?
Heart-shaped in Tamil is இருதய வடிவம்போல் அமைந்துள்ள. See Heart-shaped meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heart-shaped?
Heart-shaped is an adjective.

Words near heart-shaped in the dictionary

  1. heart-poundingly
  2. heart-rending
  3. heart-rendingly
  4. heart-searching
  5. heart-service
  6. heart-shaped
  7. heart-shattering
  8. heart-spent
  9. heart-splitting
  10. heart-stirring
  11. heart-stopper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heart-shaped (page history and authors); heart-shaped (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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