Meanings
comparative more heart-warming · superlative most heart-warming · alternative heartwarming
- idiomaticEliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
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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.
2020 September 24, @pookleblinky, Twitter, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2024
Translations
Bulgarian затрогващ
- затрогващ (zatrogvašt)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
Chinese Mandarin 感人, 暖心
- 感人 (gǎnrén)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
- 暖心 (nuǎnxīn)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
Dutch hartverwarmend
- hartverwarmendeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Finnish sydäntä lämmittävä, hellyttävä
- sydäntä lämmittäväeliciting tenderness and sympathy
- hellyttäväeliciting tenderness and sympathy
French attendrissant, touchant
- attendrissanteliciting tenderness and sympathy
- touchanteliciting tenderness and sympathy
- qui fait chaud au cœureliciting tenderness and sympathy
German herzerwärmend, herzlich
- herzerwärmendeliciting tenderness and sympathy
- herzlicheliciting tenderness and sympathy
- herzerfrischendeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Hungarian szívmelengető
- szívmelengetőeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Italian toccante, commovente
- toccanteeliciting tenderness and sympathy
- commoventeeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Japanese 心温まる, 微笑ましい
- 心温まる (kokoro atatamaru)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
- 微笑ましい (hohoemashii)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
Lithuanian jaudinantis
- jaudinantiseliciting tenderness and sympathy
Polish radujący serce
- radujący serceeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Portuguese animador
- animadoreliciting tenderness and sympathy
Russian серде́чный, душе́вный
- серде́чный (serdéčnyj)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
- душе́вный (dušévnyj)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
- тро́гательный (trógatelʹnyj)eliciting tenderness and sympathy
Spanish conmovedor, cálido
- conmovedoreliciting tenderness and sympathy
- cálidoeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Swedish gripande, hjärtevärmande
- gripandeeliciting tenderness and sympathy
- hjärtevärmandeeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Turkish iç ısıtan
- iç ısıtaneliciting tenderness and sympathy
Vietnamese ấm lòng
- ấm lòngeliciting tenderness and sympathy
Cite this entry
heart-warming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heart-warming
“heart-warming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heart-warming. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heart-warming,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heart-warming.
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