Word.ws English Dictionary

heartful

heartful noun: an amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.

Noun

heartful (plural heartfuls or heartsful)

  1. An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
    • How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat?1903, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, “Of the Meaning of Progress”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

Adjective

heartful (comparative more heartful, superlative most heartful)

  1. Sincere and compassionate.
    • They ſhall mourne foꝛ the with hertfull ſoꝛow, […]1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Ezechiel...
    • Bentley is a heartful bee. His heart is filled with love.2020, Frank J. Sileo, Bee Heartful: Spread Loving-Kindness

Synonyms of heartful

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of heartful

Forms of heartful

Noun
pluralheartfuls
pluralheartsful
Adjective
comparativemore heartful
superlativemost heartful

Origin of heartful

From heart + -ful.

From Middle English hartfull, herte full; equivalent to heart + -ful.

Words formed from heartful

Questions about heartful

What does heartful mean?
Heartful means an amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
What part of speech is heartful?
Heartful can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of heartful?
The plural of heartful is heartfuls.

Words near heartful in the dictionary

  1. heartface
  2. heartfaces
  3. heartfelt
  4. heartfeltly
  5. heartfeltness
  6. heartful
  7. heartfully
  8. heartfulness
  9. heartfuls
  10. heartgrief
  11. hearth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heartful (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “heartful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heartful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.