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widehearted

widehearted adjective: kindly and welcoming to people of all sorts.

Adjective

widehearted (comparative more widehearted, superlative most widehearted)

  1. Kindly and welcoming to people of all sorts.
    • The house is open to any respectable artisan, no matter of what creed, or no creed; […] The truer our Christianity, the more widehearted its charity.1893, Julie Sutter, A Colony of Mercy: Or, Social Christianity at Work, page 185
    • These watched me from behind motherly, widehearted and warm.2021, Heike Thieme, Book of Visions: Books of Wisdom, page 137

Forms of widehearted

comparativemore widehearted
superlativemost widehearted
alternative formwide-hearted

Questions about widehearted

What does widehearted mean?
Widehearted means kindly and welcoming to people of all sorts.
What part of speech is widehearted?
Widehearted is an adjective.

Words near widehearted in the dictionary

  1. wideboys
  2. Widecombe
  3. Widecombe in the Moor
  4. widefield
  5. widegap
  6. widehearted
  7. wideish
  8. wideleaf
  9. widelier
  10. wideliest
  11. widely

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