largehearted

[ lahrj-hahr-tid ]

adjective

1. having or showing generosity; charitable; understanding.

Other Words From

• largehearted·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of largehearted¹

First recorded in 1635–45; large + hearted

Example Sentences

Tyler Childers, an neotraditional country and Americana singer/songwriter from Kentucky writes country songs telling the stories of progressive politics and largehearted humanity in rural America.

From Salon

Ewan Goddard is thoroughly up to the task, giving a tour de force performance of this largehearted tale of self-acceptance and healing amid a dizzyingly and delightfully off-kilter world.

From Seattle Times

It’s just hard to believe that it steered a slightly crooked, often endearing and largehearted man into total depravity.

From New York Times

Villagers called Schurr “Okebe,” meaning largehearted, the pastor wrote.

From Seattle Times

She played the largehearted elite geisha Mameha in “Memoirs of a Geisha”; the now-fallen Burmese leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson’s biopic “The Lady”; a mystical warrior master in Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”; and the chilly Eleanor Young in “Crazy Rich Asians,” a future mother-in-law bound by custom and propriety, whose rigidity masks her own struggle with what’s expected of her.

From New York Times