View synonyms for big-hearted

big-hearted

[ big-hahr-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

big-hearted

First recorded in 1865–70

We believe Williams as both a beaten-down dad and big-hearted Scottish nanny.

A volatile guy, big-hearted and very smart, Moran is not facing any opposition, and his retirement puzzled Price.

This is the ancient virtue of being big-hearted (literally, the large-souled person).

Big-hearted people tend to have warm and truly fuzzy thoughts about the Humane Society of the United States.

“I have a sense of humor that encompasses the edgy and the dark and profane but also the big-hearted thing,” he said.

He was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him.

That big-hearted woman has so many protgs that one more or less scarcely interests me.

He was one of those big-hearted, violent fellows who went into it loaded with enthusiasm.

I never before appreciated as I do to-day the latent capacity for big-hearted endurance that is in the heart of every man.

And the big-hearted kindness of him, thrashing the runaway into sense.

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