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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Marked by or acting with kindness or sympathy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having warmth of heart; having a disposition such as readily shows friendship, affection, or interest; proceeding from such a disposition; cordial; sincere; hearty: as, a warm-hearted man; warm-hearted support.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective amicable and friendly
  • adjective kind, sympathetic and generous

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity

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Examples

  • Before that indignity, though, Capra's warm-hearted fantasies and celebrations of American exceptionalism — including "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) and "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) — made him one of the most successful filmmakers in America.

    Remarkable Hollywood Lives 2011

  • Marty (1955)- Approaching his middle years, lonely, overweight butcher Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine) lives with his mother and has given up on love, until one day he meets plain but warm-hearted schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair).

    John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011

  • THE CHUCK WAGON: If you're looking for new network fare on the eve of Christmas Eve, NBC continues burning off the final season of Chuck (8/7c) with a new episode featuring comics legend Stan Lee, who once upon a time romanced the stone — by which we mean stone-faced but deep down warm-hearted General Beckman (Bonita Friedericy).

    Critic's Guide to the Week in TV: Finales, Musical and Comedy Divas, and More! 2011

  • The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale Million Dollar Baby heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who seamlessly slides between warm-hearted affection and cold-blooded murder.

    Cheers & Jeers: Justified's Great Big Bads 2011

  • Marty (1955)- Approaching his middle years, lonely, overweight butcher Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine) lives with his mother and has given up on love, until one day he meets plain but warm-hearted schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair).

    John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011

  • Nor is she unsmiling – as a former model and someone trained in the arts of televisual light entertainment, Daly is accustomed to deploying a warm-hearted grin at precisely the right moment.

    Tess Daly: the interview Elizabeth Day 2010

  • None, no matter how warm-hearted or resilient, escape its effects.

    Sandy Tolan: It's the Occupation, Stupid Sandy Tolan 2011

  • Some less realistic notes are struck when Karen is wooed by her warm-hearted co-worker Paco (Jimmy Smits).

    'Mother and Child' delves into divisions, reunions 2010

  • Claire's sense of being a stranger in the apparently welcoming Charlestown community is paralleled by a less warm-hearted outsider, the FBI special agent Frawley (Jon Hamm, most famous now as Don Draper, the pivotal figure in TV's Mad Men).

    The Town Philip French 2010

  • Marty (1955)- Approaching his middle years, lonely, overweight butcher Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine) lives with his mother and has given up on love, until one day he meets plain but warm-hearted schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair).

    John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance John Farr 2011

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