quick-hearted

adjective

Easily induced to feel emotion.

Meanings

adjectivequick-hearted (comparative more quick-hearted, superlative most quick-hearted)

comparative more quick-hearted · superlative most quick-hearted

  1. Easily induced to feel emotion.

    To these impulsive, quick-hearted children of the sun, impressions on their swift and delicate sense were interesting and absorbing chiefly as feeling, pleasant, painful or neutral.

    1912, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm, page 65
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    It is no stretch of the imagination to suppose the Carnival, with the vivacity that here is known but as a traveller's tale of the quick-hearted Italian, the ubiquitous life, the perpetual motion, the sunshine all through and through one's feelings, and one's thoughts and its reflection on our actions, and our influence on others; […]

    2003, John Michael Cooper, Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, page 218
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