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openhearted

openhearted is the alternative form of open-hearted.

Meaning of open-hearted

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

Forms of openhearted

comparativemore openhearted
superlativemost openhearted

Origin of openhearted

From open + hearted.

Words formed from openhearted

Questions about openhearted

What is openhearted the alternative form of?
Openhearted is the alternative form of open-hearted.

Words near openhearted in the dictionary

  1. openhanded
  2. openhandedly
  3. openhandedness
  4. openhanding
  5. openhands
  6. openhearted
  7. openheartedly
  8. openheartedness
  9. opening
  10. opening a can of whoop ass
  11. opening a can of whoop-ass

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