kindhearted | Definition of kindhearted

Synonyms and Antonyms of kindhearted

having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others

a kindhearted young man who shoveled his elderly neighbor's driveway after the blizzard

Synonyms of kindhearted

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted

Words Related to kindhearted

attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful

affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm

clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft

patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding

altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing

anticruelty, cruelty-free

Near Antonyms of kindhearted

ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted

inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking

grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental

hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent

antihumanitarian, uncharitable

Antonyms of kindhearted

atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton