open-hearted

adjective

Frank and candidly straightforward

Meanings

adjectiveopen-hearted (comparative more open-hearted, superlative most open-hearted)

comparative more open-hearted · superlative most open-hearted · alternative openhearted

  1. Frank and candidly straightforward

    I myself consider the interviews to be of good quality, most of them even very extensive and openhearted. Openhearted, yes, but not on everything. It is a positivist naivete to take what people say as simple truth.

    2007, Annick Prieur, Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos, →ISBN, page 22
  2. Generous and kind

    Sally was generous and open-hearted to the point of foolishness, but that was her experience.

    2011, Stella Duffy, chapter 10, in Singling Out The Couples, →ISBN
  3. Emotionally receptive

    Whether or not you feel that open-hearted love toward your newborn from the very beginning, one of the best ways to cultivate it and further deepen it is simply by paying attention.

    2009, Tracy Gaudet, Paula Spencer, Body, Soul, and Baby: A Doctor's Guide to the Complete Pregnancy Experience from Preconception to Postpartum, →ISBN, page 429
    1 more example

    Mindfulness is a practice that enables us to be in an open-hearted relationship with the present moment, recognizing that the world with which we are entangled is always uncertain and changing.

    2013, Elina Penttinen, Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology, →ISBN

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian откровен, сърдечен
  • откровен (otkroven)frank
  • сърдечен (sărdečen)generous and kind
Finnish avosydäminen, hyväsydäminen
  • avosydäminenfrank
  • hyväsydäminengenerous and kind
  • sydämellinenemotionally receptive
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APA

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Chicago

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