heart-whole
Americanadjective
-
not in love.
-
wholehearted; sincere.
adjective
-
not in love
-
sincere
-
stout-hearted
Other Word Forms
- heart-wholeness noun
Etymology
Origin of heart-whole
First recorded in 1425–75; heart ( def. ) + whole ( def. )
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Like his best work with the Muppets, Williams’s music is naïve without condescension, as playful as it is heart-whole beautiful.
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2021
She emerged in 1939 heart-whole and fancy free.
From Time Magazine Archive
His desertion now of his duty, his cowardice and exacting selfishness were made doubly contemptible, when she remembered his mother's clinging love, her heart-whole devotion, her pride in him.
From Capricious Caroline by Rowlands, Effie Adelaide
Sir Edmund need not have cautioned me to keep heart-whole.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
For forty-six years the union continued unbroken; the love of the old man remaining as fresh, as earnest, and as heart-whole, as in the days of his youth.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
