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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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83 words match “HEARTED”

HEARTED a. 3 definitions

Seated or laid up in the heart. I hate the Moor: my cause is hearted. Shak.

Earnestness; sincerity; heartiness. [R.] Clarendon.

BLACK-HEARTED a.

Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

BROKEN-HEARTED a.

the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay.

CHICKEN-HEARTED a.

Timid; fearful; cowardly. Bunyan.

COLD-HEARTED a.

Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent. -- Cold"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Cowardly. The Lady Powis . . . patted him with her fan, and called him a cowhearted fellow. R. North.

DEADHEARTED; DEAD-HEARTED a.

Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless. -- Dead"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Inhuman; cruel. Shak.

DOUBLEHEARTED a.

Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.

Dejected; low-spirited.

EARTHEN-HEARTED a.

Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.

FAINTHEARTED; FAINT-HEARTED a.

asily discouraged or frightened; cowardly; timorous; dejected. Fear not, neither be faint-hearted. Is. vii. 4. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Faint"*heart`ed*ness, n.

FALSE-HEARTED a.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

FLINT-HEARTED a.

Hard-hearted. Shak.

FREE-HEARTED a.

Open; frank; unreserved; liberal; generous; as, free-hearted mirth. -- Free"-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Free"-heart`ed*ness, n.

FULL-HEARTED a.

Full of courage or confidence. Shak.

GENTLE-HEARTED a.

Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.

GREAT-HEARTED a. 2 definitions

High-spirited; fearless. [Obs.] Clarendon.

GREAT-HEARTEDNESS n.

The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.