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heartwarming

heartwarming is the alternative form of heart-warming.

Meaning of heart-warming

Adjective

heart-warming (comparative more heart-warming, superlative most heart-warming)

  1. (idiomatic) Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
    • It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.

Forms of heartwarming

comparativemore heartwarming
superlativemost heartwarming

Words formed from heartwarming

Questions about heartwarming

What is heartwarming the alternative form of?
Heartwarming is the alternative form of heart-warming.

Words near heartwarming in the dictionary

  1. heartthrobs
  2. heartward
  3. heartware
  4. heartwarmer
  5. heartwarmers
  6. heartwarming
  7. heartwarmingly
  8. heartwater
  9. heartwhole
  10. heartwise
  11. heartwood

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heartwarming (page history and authors); heart-warming (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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