OPENHEARTEDLY Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

openheartedly

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as in openly

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However, the creator is fielding queries openly and the project has already surpassed it funding goal.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 July 2026
Huffman, who represents a sprawling slice of Northern California, reaching from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, is one of just four members (out of more than 500) who are openly agnostic or religiously unaffiliated.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of openly

Adverb

Rather than expressing yourself freely, your primary concern becomes preventing conflict or hostility.

— Mark Travers, CNBC, 5 July 2026
The parliament in England created laws against Quakers, forbidding them to worship freely, charging them with punishments for refusing to take oaths or refusing to remove their hats.

— Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 3 July 2026

Definition of freely

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In the United Kingdom, more than 1,000 schools closed during last month’s record-setting European heat wave, and those choices naturally brought up memories of pandemic policies, and old debates over how such restrictions should be understood.

— Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 11 July 2026
As olives ripen, their oil content increases, texture softens and flavor becomes milder and less bitter – with the bitterness due to naturally occurring compounds called oleuropeins.

— Daryl Austin, USA Today, 11 July 2026

Definition of naturally

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When temperatures drop simply add a tailored topper, à la Erdem and Magda Butrym.

— Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 10 July 2026
Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s campaign has taken a different rhetorical approach.

— David Rooney, The Conversation, 10 July 2026

Definition of simply

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Clint and his management team sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this cancellation may cause.

— Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 2 July 2026
Here was a government that had explicitly borrowed from Beijing’s developmental playbook and sincerely attempted to imitate it, but failed.

— Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of sincerely

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The Man Will Burn (HBO Max) Jehane Noujaim and Vikram Gandhi’s four-part docu-series goes into the history and culture of the Burning Man festival, which thousands of people attend every year and which, to me, looks genuinely awful.

— Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 12 July 2026
In other words, lagom encourages us to replace the fear of being left out, driven by constant comparison with others, with the ability to choose what genuinely matters.

— Ana Morales, Vogue, 11 July 2026

Definition of genuinely

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There's a mobile app (Android/iOS) and a desktop app (Windows only), but honestly, who wants more apps bloating their already bloated app ecosystem?

— Joe Salas July 07, New Atlas, 8 July 2026
There should honestly be a sequel parody of Twister where the storm chasers use tornados to cover up their kills.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Definition of honestly

Adverb

When the United States invaded the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Twain naively imagined that the country would be liberated and turned into a republic.

— Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Schmidt is hardly alone in naively extrapolating this trend out and concluding that, in the limit, AI will inevitably consume all the energy in the world.

— Rob Toews, Forbes.com, 22 June 2026

Definition of naively

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