heart-warming

See also: heartwarming

English

Alternative forms

• heartwarming

Pronunciation

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Adjective

heart-warming (comparative more heart-warming, superlative most heart-warming)

1. Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.

   It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.

   • 2020 September 24, @pookleblinky, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 June 2024:

     Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

Related terms

• heartwarmingly

Translations

eliciting tenderness and sympathy

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: սրտաշարժ (hy) (srtašarž), սրտագրավ (hy) (srtagrav)
• Bulgarian: затрогващ (bg) (zatrogvašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感人 (zh) (gǎnrén), 暖心 (zh) (nuǎnxīn)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: hartverwarmend (nl)
• Finnish: sydäntä lämmittävä, hellyttävä (fi)
• French: attendrissant (fr), touchant (fr), qui fait chaud au cœur
• German: herzerwärmend (de), herzlich (de), herzerfrischend (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szívmelengető (hu)
• Italian: toccante (it), commovente (it)
• Japanese: 心温まる (kokoro atatamaru), 微笑ましい (ja) (hohoemashii)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: radujący serce
• Portuguese: animador (pt)
• Russian: серде́чный (ru) (serdéčnyj), душе́вный (ru) (dušévnyj), тро́гательный (ru) (trógatelʹnyj)
• Spanish: conmovedor (es)
• Swedish: gripande (sv), hjärtevärmande
• Turkish: iç ısıtan
• Vietnamese: ấm lòng