softhearted

soft·heart·ed

adjective \-ˌhär-təd\

Definition of SOFTHEARTED

: emotionally responsive : sympathetic

— soft·heart·ed·ly adverb

— soft·heart·ed·ness noun

Examples of SOFTHEARTED

1. He looks tough, but he's really very softhearted.
2. She's too softhearted to fire anyone.

First Known Use of SOFTHEARTED

circa 1592

Related to SOFTHEARTED

Synonyms

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, humane, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted

Antonyms

atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton

Related Words

attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful; affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm; clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft; patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding; altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing; anticruelty, cruelty-free

Near Antonyms

ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted; inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking; grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental; hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent; antihumanitarian, uncharitable

Rhymes with SOFTHEARTED

bighearted, coldhearted, departed, downhearted, fainthearted, freehearted, good-hearted, greathearted, halfhearted, hard-hearted, ironhearted, kindhearted, largehearted, lighthearted, proudhearted, stouthearted, truehearted, uncharted, warmhearted, weakhearted, wholehearted