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soft-hearted

soft-hearted is the alternative spelling of softhearted.

Meaning of softhearted

Adjective

softhearted (comparative more softhearted, superlative most softhearted)

  1. Gentle; kind; sympathetic.
  2. Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
  3. Willing to accept criticism.

Forms of soft-hearted

comparativemore soft-hearted
superlativemost soft-hearted

Words formed from soft-hearted

Questions about soft-hearted

What is soft-hearted the alternative spelling of?
Soft-hearted is the alternative spelling of softhearted.

Words near soft-hearted in the dictionary

  1. soft-gamma repeater
  2. soft-gamma repeaters
  3. soft-grain
  4. soft-handed
  5. soft-headed
  6. soft-hearted
  7. soft-heartedly
  8. soft-heartedness
  9. soft-land
  10. soft-landed
  11. soft-landing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-hearted (page history and authors); softhearted (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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