Definition of Openhearted

1. Adjective. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity. "A large-hearted mentor"


2. Adjective. Freely communicative; candidly straightforward. "Openhearted advice"

Definition of Openhearted

1. a. Candid; frank; generous.

Definition of Openhearted

1. Adjective. frank and candid ¹

2. Adjective. kind and generous ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Openhearted

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Openhearted

openability
openable
openbill
opencast
opencast mining
opencut
opened
opened fire
opener
openers
openest
openeth
openhanded
openhandedly
openhandedness
openhearted (current term)
openheartedly
openheartedness
opening
opening argument
opening arguments
opening axis
opening batsman
opening batsmen
opening ceremonies
opening ceremony
opening contraction
opening credits
opening fire
opening hours

Literary usage of Openhearted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"Dear son, don't be openhearted [generous], for openhearted people have empty pockets. You write us, dear son, about your dream, but I don't know what I ..."

2. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"Dear son, don't be openhearted [generous], for openhearted people have empty pockets. You write us, dear son, about your dream, but I don't know what I ..."

3. The Bristol Riots: Their Causes, Progress, and Consequences by John Eagles, Thomas Brereton, William Henry Warrington (1832)
"... I have had the honour and benefit of his friendship ; he has always had the character of a perfectly kind, openhearted, and humane man. ..."

4. The Compleat Angler: Or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on by Izaak Walton (1902)
"... as an invitation to it, that I will be as free and openhearted, as discretion will allow me to be with strangers. Ven. and Sir, I promise the like. ..."

5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1855)
"He was calm, peaceable, patient, openhearted, free of access, sociable, hospitable, cheerful, but not vain, capable of unshaken friendship, not a wit, ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1867)
"He was looking as he did when he first came to the office, fresh, and frank, and openhearted. Those appearances which had so troubled the mind of Mr. ..."

7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"Always willing to help and to give, never jealous of anybody 'stealing his thunder," but on the contrary, openhearted and openhanded, giving out of his ..."

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