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good-hearted

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of good-hearted

having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

a good-hearted doctor who regularly sees poor patients for free

Synonyms of good-hearted

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted

Words Related to good-hearted

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 of good-hearted

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

Antonyms of good-hearted

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

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