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larger-hearted

larger-hearted is the comparative form of large-hearted.

Meaning of large-hearted

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
    Synonyms:
    bighearted

Questions about larger-hearted

What is larger-hearted the comparative form of?
Larger-hearted is the comparative form of large-hearted.

Words near larger-hearted in the dictionary

  1. larger bindweed
  2. larger bindweeds
  3. larger Pacific striped octopus
  4. larger Pacific striped octopuses
  5. larger than life
  6. larger-hearted
  7. larger-scale
  8. larger-sized
  9. larger-than-life
  10. larges
  11. larges it

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