Definitions for hearted

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hearted heart·ed

Spelling: [hahr-tid]

IPA: /ˈhɑr tɪd/

Hearted is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in hearted (adeehrt).

Definitions for hearted

noun

1. Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
2. Zoology. the homologous structure in other vertebrates, consisting of four chambers in mammals and birds and three chambers in reptiles and amphibians. the analogous contractile structure in invertebrate animals, as the tubular heart of the spider and earthworm.
3. the center of the total personality, especially with reference to intuition, feeling, or emotion:
4. the center of emotion, especially as contrasted to the head as the center of the intellect:
5. capacity for sympathy; feeling; affection:
6. spirit, courage, or enthusiasm:
7. the innermost or central part of anything:
8. the vital or essential part; core:
9. the breast or bosom:
10. a person (used especially in expressions of praise or affection):
11. a conventional shape with rounded sides meeting in a point at the bottom and curving inward to a cusp at the top.
12. a red figure or pip of this shape on a playing card.
13. a card of the suit bearing such figures.
14. hearts. (used with a singular or plural verb) the suit so marked: (used with a singular verb) a game in which the players try to avoid taking tricks containing this suit.
15. Botany. the core of a tree; the solid central part without sap or albumen.
16. good condition for production, growth, etc., as of land or crops.
17. Also called core. Ropemaking. a strand running through the center of a rope, the other strands being laid around it.

Idioms

1. after one's own heart, in keeping with one's taste or preference:
2. at heart, in reality; fundamentally; basically:
3. break someone's heart, to cause someone great disappointment or sorrow, as to disappoint in love:
4. by heart, by memory; word-for-word:
5. cross one's heart, to maintain the truth of one's statement; affirm one's integrity:
6. do someone's heart good, to give happiness or pleasure to; delight:
7. eat one's heart out, to have jealousy, longing, or sorrow dominate one's emotions (often used in the imperative and with jocular reference to a famous potential rival):
8. from the bottom of one's heart, with complete sincerity. Also, from one's heart, from the heart.
9. have a heart, to be compassionate or merciful:
10. have at heart, to have as an object, aim, or desire:
11. have one's heart in one's mouth, to be very anxious or fearful:
12. have one's heart in the right place, to be fundamentally kind, generous, or well-intentioned:
13. heart and soul, enthusiastically; fervently; completely:
14. in one's heart of hearts, in one's private thoughts or feelings; deep within one:
15. lose one's heart to, to fall in love with:
16. near one's heart, of great interest or concern to one: Also, close to one's heart.
17. not have the heart, to lack the necessary courage or callousness to do something:
18. pour out one's heart, to reveal one's thoughts or private feelings: Also, open one's heart.
19. set one's heart against, to be unalterably opposed to: Also, have one's heart set against.
20. set one's heart at rest, to dismiss one's anxieties:
21. set one's heart on, to wish for intensely; determine on: Also, have one's heart set on.
22. take heart, to regain one's courage; become heartened:
23. take / lay to heart, to think seriously about; concern oneself with: to be deeply affected by; grieve over:
24. to one's heart's content, until one is satisfied; as much or as long as one wishes:
25. wear one's heart on one's sleeve, to make one's intimate feelings or personal affairs known to all: to be liable to fall in love; fall in love easily:
26. with all one's heart, with earnestness or zeal. with willingness; cordially:

adjective

1. having a specified kind of heart (now used only in combination):
2. fixed or present in the heart.

verb (used with object)

1. Archaic. to fix in the heart. to encourage.
2. Informal. to like or enjoy very much; love:

Origin of hearted

First recorded in 1175-1225, hearted is from the Middle English word iherted. See y-, heart, -ed³

Examples for hearted

I am worked and worried to death with this lecture: and curse myself as a soft headed and hearted imbecile to have accepted it.

War is a very terrible thing, and the well-meant interference of the kind- hearted may do far more harm than good.

They little knew how much more a true- hearted Roman cared for his city than for himself—for his word than for his life.

Broken- hearted at the falsehood of her lover, Apollo, (who has so many similar sins to answer for) she pined away and died.

I'd be hard- hearted and ungrateful if I didn't feel kindly toward him.

"He's as kind a hearted man as there is in Princess Anne," Roxy spoke up.