heart and soul

1. 1.

   with complete faith

   “she was with him heart and soul”

   Synonymsbody and soul

Questions about heart and soul

What does heart and soul mean?

heart and soul means "the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for heart and soul?

Close synonyms include kernel, substance, core, center, centre. 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 heart and soul a common word?

heart and soul is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.