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hollowhearted

hollowhearted is the alternative form of hollow-hearted.

Meaning of hollow-hearted

Adjective

hollow-hearted (comparative more hollow-hearted, superlative most hollow-hearted)

  1. insincere; deceitful; treacherous; hypocritical.
    • Had I, through the weakness and doting fondness of this poor woman, come upon the one link which would yet lead us to identify this hollow-hearted, false and most vindictive man of great affairs with the wandering and worthless husband of the nodescript Bess, whose hand I had touched and whose...2013, Anna Katherine Green, The Mayor's Wife, →ISBN
  2. Yearning.
    • Their fingers tightened with a sweet fury, and they sat still and breathless and crazy with love, their eyes drowsy with tenderness, hollow-hearted with wanting each other, and wanting to put their mouths together.2011, J. R. Salamanca, The Lost Country, →ISBN
  3. Having a hole at the center.
    • Just like a bamboo is hollow-hearted, he ought to open his heart to accept whatsoever of help and not ever have conceit either bias.2015, Donna Rivas, Bamboo 222 Success Secrets - 222 Most Asked Questions On Bamboo, →ISBN

Forms of hollowhearted

comparativemore hollowhearted
superlativemost hollowhearted

Origin of hollowhearted

From hollow + hearted.

Words formed from hollowhearted

Questions about hollowhearted

What is hollowhearted the alternative form of?
Hollowhearted is the alternative form of hollow-hearted.

Words near hollowhearted in the dictionary

  1. holloweth
  2. hollowfiber
  3. hollowfibers
  4. hollowfibre
  5. hollowfibres
  6. hollowhearted
  7. hollowheartedly
  8. hollowheartedness
  9. hollowing
  10. hollowing out
  11. hollowings

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