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large-hearted

large-hearted adjective: having a generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.

Adjective

large-hearted (comparative more large-hearted or larger-hearted, superlative most large-hearted or largest-hearted)

  1. Having a generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
    • He was a hearty man, a large-hearted man that is to say. He was perhaps the largest-hearted man I ever knew. I think he made a nearer approach to obeying the divine precept, “Love thy neighbour as thyself,” than one man in a hundred thousand.1887, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, “Charles Dickens”, in What I Remember […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and Son […], →OCLC, page 115
    • Julius Rosenwald was one of the largest-minded and largest-hearted men of modern times. He transcended all barriers of race, religion and nationality.1932 January 7, John R[aleigh] Mott, quotee, “Rosenwald Praised by Leaders Here; Spirit Which Marked His Charities Is Emphasized as Sorrow Is Expressed for His Death. […]”, in The New York Times, New...
    Synonyms:
    bighearted

large-hearted meaning in Hindi and Tamil

large-hearted in Hindi

large-hearted, beloved
दिलदार dildār

large-hearted in Tamil

வண்மையுளம் உடைய, இரங்குகிற

Synonyms of large-hearted

Forms of large-hearted

comparativemore large-hearted
comparativelarger-hearted
superlativemost large-hearted
superlativelargest-hearted
alternative formlargehearted

Words formed from large-hearted

Questions about large-hearted

What does large-hearted mean?
Large-hearted means having a generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal.
What is large-hearted in Hindi?
Large-hearted in Hindi is दिलदार (dildār). See Large-hearted meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is large-hearted?
Large-hearted is an adjective.

Words near large-hearted in the dictionary

  1. large-handedly
  2. large-handedness
  3. large-headed rice rat
  4. large-headed water snake
  5. large-headed water snakes
  6. large-hearted
  7. large-heartedly
  8. large-heartedness
  9. large-intestinal
  10. large-minded
  11. large-scale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: large-hearted (page history and authors); दिलदार (Hindi) (page history and authors); large-hearted (Tamil 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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