hearted

1. 1
   adjectivein compounds

   Having a heart of a specified kind, or a specified number of hearts.

   Her warm-hearted nature made every stranger feel instantly welcome.

   In the show's mythology, the Time Lords are famously two-hearted.

   Note

   The adjective comes from Middle English herted, heart plus -ed, and it rarely stands alone. It finishes compounds such as hard-hearted and warm-hearted, joined by a hyphen. The first half usually names a temperament, but it can also be a number. In For a Blissful Baby (2001), Kumuda Reddy and her coauthors call a pregnant woman "two-hearted" because she nourishes her baby's desires as well as her own.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of heart.

   By midsummer the cabbages had hearted into firm, round heads.

   He hearted the message the moment he saw it on his phone.

   Note

   The past form follows each verb sense of heart. Online, someone hearted a post, and it was hearted by dozens of readers. In the garden, cabbages and lettuces have hearted when they close into firm heads, and here no object follows. The obsolete sense of giving courage now belongs to hearten. Keep all of these apart from the adjective in kind-hearted, which shares the spelling.

3. 3
   adjective

   Seated or firmly fixed in the heart; deeply held or felt.

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