Usually means: Showing gentle and compassionate nature.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word softhearted:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. softhearted: Merriam-Webster
  2. softhearted: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. softhearted: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. softhearted: Collins English Dictionary
  5. softhearted: Vocabulary.com
  6. softhearted: Wordnik
  7. softhearted: Wiktionary
  8. softhearted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. softhearted: Dictionary.com
  10. softhearted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. softhearted: Rhymezone
  12. softhearted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. softhearted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. softhearted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. softhearted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. softhearted: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (softhearted)

▸ adjective:  Gentle; kind; sympathetic.
▸ adjective:  Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
▸ adjective:  Willing to accept criticism.

Similar:
soft-boiled, soft-hearted, gentlehearted, tender-handed, softhanded, soft, gentle-hearted, kindly, gentle, tenderhanded, more...

Opposite:
hardhearted, stonyhearted, unsympathetic

Types:
compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, tenderhearted, kindhearted, more...

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Similar:
soft-boiled, soft-hearted, gentlehearted, tender-handed, softhanded, soft, gentle-hearted, kindly, gentle, tenderhanded, more...

Opposite:
hardhearted, stonyhearted, unsympathetic

Types:
compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic, tenderhearted, kindhearted, more...



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