hearted

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UK/ˈhɑːtɪd/US/ˈhɑɹtɪd/

adjective

Having a specified kind or number of heart.

“a hard-hearted woman”

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of heart
adjectivehearted (not comparable)
  1. in compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified kind or number of heart.

    a hard-hearted woman

    2 more examples

    It is said that she is "two-hearted," which means that she now has to nourish and fulfill the desires of both her baby and herself.

    2001, Kumuda Reddy, Linda Egenes, Margaret Mullins, For a Blissful Baby

    Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.

    2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2012
  2. not comparableSeated or fixed in the heart; laid up in the heart.

    I have told thee often, and I retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor. My cause is hearted;

    c. 1603, William Shakespeare, edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles, Othello, Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, Act I, scene iii, lines 407–409
    2 more examples

    Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell! Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne To tyrannous hate!.

    c. 1603, William Shakespeare, edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles, Othello, Washington, D.C.: Folger Shakespeare Library, Act III, scene iii, lines 507–509

    While he gave utterance to a deep and hearted feeling of jealousy for the old delightful books of fancy which were banished by the sense of Mrs. Barbauld, he cherished great respect for that lady's power as a true English prose writer; and spoke often of her “Essay on Inconsistent Expectations” as alike bold and original in thought and elegant in style.

    1850, Thomas Noon Talfourd, The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 117

Origin

  1. Middle Englishherted
  2. Englishhearted

From Middle English herted, hertid; equivalent to heart + -ed.

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