heartwarming
- gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
Origin of heartwarming
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soothing, encouraging, refreshing, reassuring, invigorating, curing, sustaining, remedying, relieving, inspiriting, abating, consoling, alleviating, warming, lightening, mitigating, analeptic, consolatory, heart-warmingExamples from the Web for heart-warming
Contemporary Examples of heart-warming
The show is a fascinating and heart-warming ride with lovable group of characters led by Whitley.
There will be tragic stories and heart-warming stories and everything in between.
The spread could be dismissed as little more than an excuse to run a heart-warming photo of the happy family.
But the show is hilarious and heart-warming, genius in its writing, and innovative in its story-telling.
Historical Examples of heart-warming
With this heart-warming word of approval, they went in to dinner.
Carolyn of the CornersRuth Belmore Endicott
It was all beautiful and heart-warming, but it had to be paid for.
Julia Ward HoweLaura E. Richards
It is one of the most heart-warming things in the world to get these letters and to answer them.
Wings and the ChildE. [Edith] Nesbit
There were nights of wholesome, heart-warming merriment and the singing of old songs.
The PioneersKatharine Susannah Prichard
Why should this fierce new hunger for one friendly, honest, heart-warming smile of liking and welcome gnaw at his heart?
JimsyLeona Dalrymple
heart-warming
- pleasing; gratifying
- emotionally moving