1.
[syn: charitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-hearted]
2. freely communicative; candidly straightforward;
- Example: "openhearted advice"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Open-hearted \O"pen-heart`ed\, a.
Candid; frank; generous. --Dryden. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ly,
adv. -- O"pen-heart`ed*ness, n. --Walton.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
openhearted
adj 1: showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and
generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others";
"kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words";
"a large-hearted mentor" [syn: charitable,
benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted,
openhearted, large-hearted]
2: freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted
advice"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "openhearted":
amiable, artless, bighearted, bluff, blunt, born yesterday,
bounteous, bountiful, broad, brusque, candid, childlike, confiding,
cordial, direct, downright, explicit, forthright, frank,
frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
freehanded, freehearted, friendly, generous, genial, genuine,
giving, gracious, greathearted, guileless, handsome,
heart-to-heart, hearty, hospitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent,
large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent,
naive, neighborly, open, openhanded, outspoken, plain,
plain-spoken, princely, profuse, receptive, round, simple,
simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted,
single-minded, stintless, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
transparent, trustful, trusting, unchecked, unconcealed,
unconstrained, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling,
unequivocal, ungrudging, unguarded, unreserved, unrestrained,
unselfish, unsophisticated, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting,
unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, warm, warmhearted, welcoming