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open-hearted

open-hearted adjective: frank and candidly straightforward.

Adjective

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

  1. Frank and candidly straightforward
    • I myself consider the interviews to be of good quality, most of them even very extensive and openhearted. Openhearted, yes, but not on everything. It is a positivist naivete to take what people say as simple truth.2007, Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, →ISBN, page 22
  2. Generous and kind
    • Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience.2011, Stella Duffy, chapter 10, in Singling Out The Couples, →ISBN
  3. Emotionally receptive
    • Whether or not you feel that open-hearted love toward your newborn from the very beginning, one of the best ways to cultivate it and further deepen it is simply by paying attention.2009, Tracy Gaudet, Paula Spencer, Body, Soul, and Baby: A Doctor's Guide to the Complete Pregnancy Experience from Preconception to Postpartum, →ISBN, page 429
    • Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to be in an open-hearted relationship with the present moment, recognizing that the world with which we are entangled is always uncertain and changing.2013, Elina Penttinen, Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, →ISBN

open-hearted meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

open-hearted in Tamil

கபடற்ற

open-hearted in Bengali

open-hearted or simple-natured person
অকপটচিত্ত ôkôpôṭcittô
open-hearted, ungrudging, unhesitating
অকুণ্ঠচিত্ত ôkunṭhôcittô, অকুণ্ঠিতচিত্ত okunṭhitocitto

open-hearted in Malayalam

തുറന്ന മനസ്സുളള, ദയയുളള, ശുദ്ധമനസ്സുള്ള

open-hearted in Kannada

ಸಹೃದಯ, ನಿಷ್ಕಪಟ, ಬಿಚ್ಚುಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ಬಿಡುಗಯ್ಯ, ಕಳಕಳಿಯಿರುವ, ಬಿಚ್ಚೆದೆಯ

Forms of open-hearted

comparativemore open-hearted
superlativemost open-hearted
alternative formopenhearted

Origin of open-hearted

From open + hearted.

Words formed from open-hearted

Questions about open-hearted

What does open-hearted mean?
Open-hearted means frank and candidly straightforward.
What is open-hearted in Tamil?
Open-hearted in Tamil is கபடற்ற. See Open-hearted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is open-hearted?
Open-hearted is an adjective.

Words near open-hearted in the dictionary

  1. open-handedness
  2. open-handing
  3. open-hands
  4. open-heart surgeries
  5. open-heart surgery
  6. open-hearted
  7. open-heartedly
  8. open-heartedness
  9. open-hearth
  10. open-kneed
  11. open-kneed breeches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: open-hearted (page history and authors); open-hearted (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকপটচিত্ত (Bengali) (page history and authors); open-hearted (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); open-hearted (Kannada 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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