heart-warming
heart-warming adjective: eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
Adjective
heart-warming (comparative more heart-warming, superlative most heart-warming)
- Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
- It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
- Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.2020 September 24, @pookleblinky, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2024
heart-warming meaning in Malayalam and Vietnamese
heart-warming in Malayalam
- ഹൃദയാവർജകമായ
heart-warming in Vietnamese
- eliciting tenderness and sympathy
- ấm lòng
Forms of heart-warming
| comparative | more heart-warming |
|---|---|
| superlative | most heart-warming |
| alternative form | heartwarming |
Words formed from heart-warming
Questions about heart-warming
- What does heart-warming mean?
- Heart-warming means eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
- What is heart-warming in Malayalam?
- Heart-warming in Malayalam is ഹൃദയാവർജകമായ. See Heart-warming meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is heart-warming?
- Heart-warming is an adjective.
Words near heart-warming in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heart-warming (page history and authors); heart-warming (Malayalam 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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