| Main Entry: | warmhearted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compassionate, kindly |
Synonyms: |
all heart, benevolent, charitable, cordial, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good-hearted, good-natured, gracious, hearty, kind, kindhearted, merciful, neighborly, pleasant, polite, softhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, warm |
| Main Entry: | affectionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having or showing fondness |
Synonyms: |
all over, attached, caring, crazy over, dear, devoted, doting, fond, friendly, huggy, kind, lovey-dovey, loving, mushy, nutty about, partial, soft on, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
antagonistic, cold, cool, disliking, undemonstrative |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
Synonyms: |
affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, buddy-buddy, charming, cheerful, clubby, complaisant, cool*, copacetic, cordial, cozy, delightful, downright neighborly, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, home cooking, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy, pleasant, pleasing, princely, pussycat, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, sweet-tempered, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
Antonyms: |
crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | benevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charitable, kind |
Synonyms: |
all heart, altruistic, beneficent, benign, big, big-hearted, bounteous, bountiful, caring, chivalrous, compassionate, considerate, generous, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kindhearted, liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic, tenderhearted, warmhearted, well-disposed |
Antonyms: |
greedy, malevolent, mean, selfish, spiteful, unkind |
| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
Synonyms: |
all heart, being big, benevolent, bleeding heart, charitable, commiserative, forbearing, going easy on, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, living with, merciful, old softie, piteous, pitying, responsive, soft shell, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
| Main Entry: | considerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectful of others |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, amiable, attentive, benevolent, big, charitable, chivalrous, circumspect, compassionate, complaisant, concerned, cool, discreet, forbearing, generous, kind, kindly, like a sport, magnanimous, mellow, mindful, obliging, patient, polite, solicitous, sympathetic, tactful, tender, thoughtful, unselfish, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
disrespectful, impatient, inattentive, inconsiderate, mean, scornful, selfish, thoughtless, unfeeling, unmindful |
| Main Entry: | cordial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, sociable |
Synonyms: |
affable, affectionate, agreeable, amicable, buddy-buddy, cheerful, clubby, companionable, congenial, convivial, cozy, earnest, genial, glowing, gracious, happy, heart-to-heart, heartfelt, hearty, invigorating, jovial, mellow, neighborly, palsy-walsy, polite, red-carpet, responsive, sincere, social, sympathetic, tender, warm, warmhearted, welcoming, wholehearted |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cool, disagreeable, hostile, indifferent, inhospitable, uncordial, unfriendly, unpleasant, unsociable |
| Main Entry: | demonstrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expressive, communicative |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, candid, effusive, emotional, evincive, expansive, explanatory, expository, frank, gushing, histrionic, illustrative, indicative, loving, open, outgoing, outpouring, outspoken, plain, profuse, symptomatic, tender, unconstrained, unreserved, unrestrained, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
cold, cool, inexpressive, reserved, restrained, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, unemotional |
| Main Entry: | fervent/fervid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enthusiastic, excited |
Synonyms: |
animated, ardent, blazing, burning, devout, dying to, eager, earnest, ecstatic, emotional, enthused, falling all over oneself, fiery, glowing, go great guns, heartfelt, hearty, hot*, hot-blooded, impassioned, intense, passionate, perfervid, pious, religious, responsive, serious, sincere, unfeigned, vehement, warm, warmhearted, wholehearted, zealous |
Antonyms: |
cool, discouraged, dispirited, impassive, uncaring, unenthusiastic, unexcited |
| Main Entry: | genial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely nice and happy |
Synonyms: |
affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, blithe, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chipper, chirpy, congenial, convivial, cordial, easygoing, enlivening, favorable, friendly, gentle, glad, good-natured, gracious, hearty, high, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, kind, kindly, merry, neighborly, perky, pleasant, sociable, sunny side up, sunny*, up*, upbeat, upper, warm, warm-hearted |
Antonyms: |
aloof, cold, cool, cranky, irritable, moody, unfriendly, unhappy |