softhearted

soft·heart·ed

adj \-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

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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