ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Heart-warming

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Heart-warming is an adjective meaning (idiomatic) Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.

Meaning

(idiomatic) Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.

Example Sentences

It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include encouraging, enthusiastic, warm, heartwarming, heart-touching, hearthful.

Related Dictionary Tools

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.