Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gentlehearted

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gen-tle-heart-ed
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of gentle-hearted.

Example Sentences

"Unfortunately, meek, kind, gentlehearted Annamaria had cultivated the two most lamentable, most damning traits known to womanhood: She was nice."
"Lady Swinburne was watching him covertly and read some of his thoughts, for she was a discerning gentlehearted woman."
"The dell and dingle have their different spirits, the wood and rivulet theirs; and the gentlehearted peasants who inhabit them are, in some instances, almost as rigidly tenacious of the privileges of the genius loci, as they are of their own rights ..."

Etymology

From gentle + hearted.

Inflected Forms

more gentlehearted (comparative) most gentlehearted (superlative)

Derived Forms

gentleheartedly gentleheartedness

Questions

What does gentlehearted mean?: Alternative form of gentle-hearted.
Where does gentlehearted come from?: From gentle + hearted.

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