Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

singlehearted

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sin-gle-heart-ed
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Alternative form of single-hearted.

Example Sentences

"“Nay, nay,” interrupted the single-hearted and generous guide; “Jasper wants not for friends in this region, I can assure you; and though seeing the world, according to his habits, may do him good as well as another, we shall think none the worse of him if he never quits us."
"But the Achilles depicted there is the same that is revealed here, obsessed with one idea felt with a single-hearted intensity which we can marvel at, even if we cannot comprehend it."
"Delilah and Samson, Guinevere and King Arthur, Lady Macbeth and Banquo, Lucy Westenra and Jonathan Harker— all provide narrative examples of the duplicitous female and the single-hearted male."

Etymology

From single + hearted.

Inflected Forms

more singlehearted (comparative) most singlehearted (superlative)

Derived Forms

singleheartedly singleheartedness

Questions

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

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