Open-hearted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Open-hearted \O"pen-heart`ed\, a.
     Candid; frank; generous. --Dryden. -- {O"pen-heart`ed*ly},
     adv. -- {O"pen-heart`ed*ness}, n. --Walton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  openhearted
       adj 1: freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted
              advice"
       2: generously responsive; "good-hearted but inept efforts to
          help"; "take a kindly interest"; "a kindly gentleman"; "an
          openhearted gift to charity" [syn: {good-hearted}, {kind},
           {kindly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "openhearted":
     amiable, artless, bighearted, bluff, blunt, born yesterday,
     bounteous, bountiful, broad, brusque, candid, childlike, confiding,
     cordial, direct, downright, explicit, forthright, frank,
     frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
     freehanded, freehearted, friendly, generous, genial, genuine,
     giving, gracious, greathearted, guileless, handsome,
     heart-to-heart, hearty, hospitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent,
     large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent,
     naive, neighborly, open, openhanded, outspoken, plain,
     plain-spoken, princely, profuse, receptive, round, simple,
     simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted,
     single-minded, stintless, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
     transparent, trustful, trusting, unchecked, unconcealed,
     unconstrained, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling,
     unequivocal, ungrudging, unguarded, unreserved, unrestrained,
     unselfish, unsophisticated, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting,
     unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, warm, warmhearted, welcoming