| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Having or proceeding from an innately kind disposition.[Wordnet]
2. Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.[Websters] 3. Being good-natured, good-hearted, well-intentioned or good-humoured. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being good, nice or decent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being benevolent, philanthropic, charitable or beneficent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being gracious, benignant or merciful. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being gentle, benign, mild, bland or lenient. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being genial, warmhearted or debonair. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being tolerant or magnanimous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb kind-heartedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (kind-heartedly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective kind-hearted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "KIND-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
