hearted
/ˈhɑːtɪd/US/ˈhɑɹtɪd/
hearted is the simple past and past participle of heart.
Adjective
hearted (not comparable)
- Having a specified kind or number of heart.
- a hard-hearted woman
- It is said that she is "two-hearted," which means that she now has to nourish and fulfill the desires of both her baby and herself.2001, Kumuda Reddy, Linda Egenes, Margaret Mullins, For a Blissful Baby
- Seated or fixed in the heart.
Meaning of heart
Verb
heart (third-person singular simple present hearts, present participle hearting, simple past and past participle hearted)
- To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
- We're but the sum of all our terrors until we heart the dove.2001 April 6, Michael Baldwin, “The Heart Has Its Reasons”, in Commonweal
- Synonyms:
- love, less than three
- To mark a comment, post, reply, etc., with the heart symbol (❤).
- She hearted my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.
- Synonyms:
- love
- To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
- […]My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
- To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage.
Origin of hearted
From Middle English herted, hertid; equivalent to heart + -ed.
Words formed from hearted
- big-hearted
- bighearted
- black-hearted
- bold-hearted
- bravehearted
- broken hearted
- brokenhearted
- broken-hearted
- chicken-hearted
- chickenhearted
- cold-hearted
- coldhearted
- cow-hearted
- cowhearted
- cruelhearted
- cruel-hearted
- dark hearted
- dark-hearted
- deadhearted
- dead-hearted
- dog-hearted
- double-hearted
- doublehearted
- downhearted
- down-hearted
- empty-hearted
- faint-hearted
- fainthearted
- false-hearted
- falsehearted
- flint-hearted
- fool-hearted
- free-hearted
- freehearted
- full-hearted
- fullhearted
- gentlehearted
- gentle-hearted
- gladhearted
- glass-hearted
- golden-hearted
- gold-hearted
- good-hearted
- goodhearted
- greathearted
- great-hearted
- half-hearted
- halfhearted
- hard-hearted
- hardhearted
- hare-hearted
- heartedly
- heartedness
- heavyhearted
- heavy-hearted
- hen hearted
- hen-hearted
- highhearted
- high-hearted
- hollowhearted
Phrases with hearted
Questions about hearted
- What does hearted mean?
- Hearted means having a specified kind or number of heart.
- What is hearted the simple past and past participle of?
- Hearted is the simple past and past participle of heart.
- What part of speech is hearted?
- Hearted is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce hearted?
- Hearted is pronounced /ˈhɑːtɪd/ (UK).
Words near hearted in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hearted (page history and authors); heart (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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