as in generous
giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation
a bighearted guy who can't seem to ever say "no"
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Recent Examples of bighearted
From the formidable aquarium, with not one but two giant whale sharks circling its main tank, to Osaka Castle Park and (more importantly) its wondrous playground, to the preponderance of casual eateries run by bighearted people, my love for this city takes on a new dimension.
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Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024
Instead, viewers were treated to the most bighearted and affecting episode yet.
—Darryn King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
Shunichi, the bighearted patriarch, passed away a few years later.
—Matt Goulding, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024
But people who knew him then recall a boisterous, bighearted student at the center of Yale’s social life.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
This bighearted story of a young London veterinarian and herpetologist eager to study the isle’s endangered turtles and find her father is about the importance of discovering a sense of community and belonging.
—Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2024
There’s a refreshing whiff of whimsy and playful originality to writer/director John Krasinski’s bighearted fantasy (★★½ out of four; rated PG; in theaters Friday), which centers on a young girl who discovers a secret world of imaginary friends (aka IFs).
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
Richie’s joyride turns last year’s re-recorded version of the original Speak Now track into a bighearted anthem for a local boy who finally makes good.
—Shannon Carlin, TIME, 3 May 2024
By Shirley Li As an actor, Dev Patel has tended to play bighearted softies in rousing crowd-pleasers.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Bighearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bighearted. Accessed 13 Jan. 2025.
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