Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Kind-hearted \Kind"-heart`ed\, a. Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.
To thy self at least kind-hearted prove.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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a. (alternative form of kindhearted English)
Usage examples of "kind-hearted".
I expected, Baas, for of course if a man is very fond of women, in his inside, Baas, they know it and like him--no need to tell them in so many words, Baas--and being kind-hearted, are quite ready to be fond of him.
Madame Morin, who, for all I know, may be alive now, was a most kind-hearted woman.
But, although believing fully in my oracles, they were too kind-hearted to think them the work of the devil, and it suited their natural goodness better to believe my answers inspired by some heavenly spirit.
He only wished to be sure that his patient was indeed Professor Smith, the archaeologist, and notforgive mesome adventurer preying upon the sympathy of a kind-hearted young lady.
As the Landlady could never have educated him in this way out of the profits of keeping boarders, I was not surprised when I was told that she had received a pretty little property in the form of a bequest from a former boarder, a very kind-hearted, worthy old gentleman who had been long with her and seen how hard she worked for food and clothes for herself and this son of hers, Benjamin Franklin by his baptismal name.
Madame Morin, who, for all I know, may be alive now, was a most kind-hearted woman.
Sabatini was neither a young man nor a handsome one, but he was kind-hearted and distinguished.
But the Ophelia, for all her blowzy airs, was a lady, and a kind-hearted one as well.
On Saturday, you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now.
Her father, Dan Tucker, was run over one day by a train of cars though he needn't have been, for the kind-hearted engineer told him to Git out of the Way.
She brought to me her little daughter Flaminia, a kind-hearted child with wonderfully bright eyes She put forth her mouth immediately for me to kiss, came willingly to me, and we were, in two minutes, old acquaintances and friends.
The kind-hearted lad had the donkey's two little hoofs planted on the top step, an' whilst he himself was liftin' the rest of the baste in his arrums, Solomon got onaisy that he was goin' to be trun, an' so began to twisht an' squirm.