openhearted

Questions about openhearted

What does openhearted mean?

openhearted means "showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in openhearted?

openhearted has 5 syllables and divides as o-pen-he-ar-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for openhearted?

Close synonyms include charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted. 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 openhearted a common word?

openhearted 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.