Synonyms of bighearted

bighearted

adjective

ˈbig-ˈhär-təd 

as in generous

giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation

a bighearted guy who can't seem to ever say "no"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• generous
• charitable
• benevolent
• munificent
• liberal
• unselfish
• bounteous
• handsome
• bountiful
• openhanded
• unstinting
• unsparing
• fulsome
• compassionate
• open
• freehanded
• hospitable
• kind
• free
• philanthropic
• humanitarian
• lavish
• magnanimous
• altruistic
• freehearted
• profuse
• sympathetic
• kindly
• extravagant
• openhearted
• beneficent
• overgenerous
• good-hearted
• big
• largehearted
• greathearted
• samaritan

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• selfish
• parsimonious
• ungenerous
• miserly
• small
• stingy
• penurious
• tightfisted
• cheap
• uncharitable
• tight
• petty
• close
• costive
• mingy
• thrifty
• illiberal
• mean
• frugal
• spare
• sparing
• chary
• stinting
• avaricious
• desirous
• closefisted
• acquisitive
• rapacious
• avid
• covetous
• mercenary
• resentful
• envious
• grudging
• itchy
• grasping
• begrudging
• hoggish
• stinting
• coveting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bighearted

So began a campaign that fused blunt political messaging with bighearted moving images—a sensibility not unlike that of Nair’s films. — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

What’s so special about Britain’s patron wanker of bighearted buffoonery? — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025

Shunichi, the bighearted patriarch, passed away a few years later. — Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024

But people who knew him then recall a boisterous, bighearted student at the center of Yale’s social life. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024