Synonyms of softhearted

softhearted

adjective

ˈsȯf(t)-ˌhär-təd 

as in compassionate

having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

a softhearted person who never hesitates to help anyone in trouble

Synonyms & Similar Words

• compassionate
• benevolent
• kind
• sympathetic
• humane
• thoughtful
• gentle
• kindhearted
• gracious
• kindly
• friendly
• good-hearted
• merciful
• nice
• tenderhearted
• generous
• sweet
• warmhearted
• beneficent
• tender
• good
• humanitarian
• attentive
• benignant
• pleasant
• considerate
• warm
• patient
• good-natured
• solicitous
• affable
• benign
• pitying
• soft
• mild
• lenient
• forgiving
• noble
• charitable
• genial
• liberal
• tolerant
• companionable
• good-tempered
• forbearing
• cordial
• amicable
• neighborly
• selfless
• magnanimous
• altruistic
• unselfish
• philanthropic
• understanding
• comradely
• munificent
• openhearted
• brotherly
• unsparing
• clement
• greathearted
• freehanded
• anticruelty
• cruelty-free

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• cruel
• callous
• heartless
• unsympathetic
• savage
• vicious
• brutal
• sadistic
• unkind
• brutish
• ruthless
• unfeeling
• truculent
• brute
• inhuman
• barbaric
• inhumane
• barbarous
• bestial
• pitiless
• atrocious
• merciless
• fiendish
• insensate
• hard-hearted
• thoughtless
• cold-blooded
• insensitive
• uncaring
• tough
• stern
• uncompassionate
• severe
• harsh
• unkindly
• inconsiderate
• unthinking
• grim
• malignant
• wanton
• unsentimental
• malicious
• spiteful
• mean
• hateful
• virulent
• malevolent
• ironhearted
• nasty
• malign
• stonyhearted
• hard-boiled
• uncharitable
• heavy-handed
• antihumanitarian

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of softhearted

Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025

Becker shows that proponents of Brexit talked surprisingly little about the past and tried, in fact, to hang nostalgia’s toxic millstone around the necks of Remainers, accusing them of a softhearted attachment to the now sclerotic dream of European unity. —Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023

The struggle to save the farm deepens the partnership between Craig, softhearted but realistic, and Jillian, the persistent Jiminy Cricket on his shoulder. —James Poniewozik, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023

Ford received a standing ovation last spring at the Cannes Film Festival, and his gruff but softhearted demeanor works. —Dan Lybarger, Arkansas Online, 29 June 2023

How to adopt: Interested adopters can meet softhearted Summer at the Arizona Humane Society’s South Mountain location. —The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2023