good-hearted

Questions about good-hearted

What does good-hearted mean?

good-hearted means "showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity".

How many syllables are in good-hearted?

good-hearted has 4 syllables: go-od--hear-ted. The stress falls on "od-".

What is another word for good-hearted?

Close synonyms include charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, openhearted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is good-hearted a common word?

good-hearted is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.