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