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quick-hearted

quick-hearted adjective: easily induced to feel emotion.

Adjective

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

  1. Easily induced to feel emotion.
    • To these impulsive, quick-hearted children of the sun, impressions on their swift and delicate sense were interesting and absorbing chiefly as feeling, pleasant, painful or neutral.1912, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm, page 65
    • It is no stretch of the imagination to suppose the Carnival, with the vivacity that here is known but as a traveller's tale of the quick-hearted Italian, the ubiquitous life, the perpetual motion, the sunshine all through and through one's feelings, and one's thoughts and its reflection on our...2003, John Michael Cooper, Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, page 218

Forms of quick-hearted

comparativemore quick-hearted
superlativemost quick-hearted

Questions about quick-hearted

What does quick-hearted mean?
Quick-hearted means easily induced to feel emotion.
What part of speech is quick-hearted?
Quick-hearted is an adjective.

Words near quick-hearted in the dictionary

  1. quick-freezing
  2. quick-froze
  3. quick-frozen
  4. quick-handed
  5. quick-handedness
  6. quick-hearted
  7. quick-like
  8. quick-setting
  9. quick-sighted
  10. quick-tempered
  11. quick-thinking

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