| Main Entry: | kind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous, good |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, all heart, altruistic, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big, bleeding-heart, bounteous, charitable, clement, compassionate, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, eleemosynary, friendly, gentle, good-hearted, gracious, heart in right place, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, mild, neighborly, obliging, philanthropic, propitious, soft touch, softhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding |
Antonyms: |
bad, bitter, cruel, inconsiderate, mean, unfriendly, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | progressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | liberal; growing |
Synonyms: |
accelerating, advanced, advancing, avant-garde*, bleeding-heart, broad, broad-minded, continuing, continuous, developing, dynamic, enlightened, enterprising, escalating, forward-looking, go-ahead, gradual, graduated, increasing, intensifying, left of center, left*, lenient, modern, ongoing, onward, open-minded, radical, reformist, revolutionary, tolerant, up-and-coming, up-to-date, wide |
Antonyms: |
conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | softhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tender |
Synonyms: |
all heart, benevolent, big-hearted, bleeding-heart, caring, charitable, compassionate, considerate, emotional, forgiving, generous, gentle, kind, lenient, merciful, moving, sensitive, sentimental, soft, sympathetic, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted |
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affectionate, loving |
Synonyms: |
all heart, amorous, benevolent, bleeding-heart, caring, charitable, commiserative, compassionate, considerate, demonstrative, emotional, evocative, fond, forgiving, gentle, humane, kind, lenient, lovey-dovey, merciful, mild, moving, mushy, poignant, responsive, romantic, sensitive, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solicitous, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, ticklish, tolerant, touching, touchy, warm, warmhearted, yielding |
Antonyms: |
callous, uncaring, unfeeling, unloving |
| Main Entry: | bleeding heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sympathetic person |
Synonyms: |
bleeding-heart liberal, liberal, sentimental fool, softy, sympathizer |