Meanings
comparative more free-hearted · superlative most free-hearted
- alternativeAlternative form of freehearted.
He was simply one of those many thousand England yearly turns out from her public schools of fine, dashing, free-hearted, careless boys, whose most marked feature in character is a wholesome horror of all that is mean or shabby.
2009, Charles Lever, One of Them, →ISBN, page 281 more example
I was not made of sugar, I was no mollycoddle to be afraid of an ill-aired bed or a sprinkle of snow; and I would knock upon the table with my fist and call for t'other bottle, like the noisy and free-hearted young gentleman I was.
1897, Nathaniel Hawthorne, St. Ives
Origin
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free-hearted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/free-hearted
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