kindhearted

[kahynd-hahr-tid]

adjective

1. having or showing sympathy or kindness.

   a kindhearted woman.

Other Word Forms

• kindheartedly adverb
• kindheartedness noun
• unkindhearted adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of kindhearted¹

First recorded in 1525–35; kind ¹ + hearted

Synonym Study

See kind ¹.

Example Sentences

Yet when she spoke, her tone was chatty, as if it were some other kindhearted housekeeper who had just been overcome with tears for the twelfth time that day.

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To suggest that sick children ought to be left to suffer in order to improve their characters seemed quite unlike Mrs. Clarke, whom Penelope knew to be thoroughly kindhearted.

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His affability was undeniable, largely because Candy was as kindhearted and authentic in real life as he was onscreen.

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“Everyone will say he was kindhearted and generous and supportive, a person of integrity, a hard worker,” said Simon Li, a former editor at The Times who worked with Holley on the foreign desk.

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So would Emerson want to play someone kindhearted for a change?

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Related Words

• considerate 
• gracious 
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