heart-shaped

comparative more heart-shaped · superlative most heart-shaped

1. not comparableusuallyHaving the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.

   […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

   1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems

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   It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.

   1965, Attila Zohar [pseudonym; James Holledge], Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80

   She was bluish now, and her eyes were closed, but I saw her beautiful heart-shaped face, the softness of her, and while I was taking her in, and worried for her, desperate for this to be over and her breathing to begin again, I had the feeling that I might lose my sense of my surroundings, might be hypnotized again as I had been by the picture.

   2023, Dave Eggers, illustrated by Shawn Harris, The Eyes and the Impossible, page 93

   Synonyms: cordate, cordiform