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largest-hearted

largest-hearted is the superlative 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 largest-hearted

What is largest-hearted the superlative form of?
Largest-hearted is the superlative form of large-hearted.

Words near largest-hearted in the dictionary

  1. largesome
  2. largess
  3. largesse
  4. largesses
  5. largest
  6. largest-hearted
  7. largest-scale
  8. largest-sized
  9. larget
  10. largets
  11. larghetto

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