heartwarming
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Causing gladness and pleasure; emotionally moving in a positive way: Describes something that evokes feelings of happiness, warmth, kindness, or affection, often by appealing to positive emotions or sentiments.
Usage
- The adjective heartwarming is used to describe events, stories, gestures, or scenes that make one feel emotionally touched, comforted, or happy.
- It is typically used in a positive context to highlight kindness, love, or joy.
- It can modify nouns directly (e.g., a heartwarming story) or be used as a predicate adjective (e.g., The gesture was heartwarming).
Examples
Advanced Usage
- "to find something heartwarming": to experience something as emotionally touching or pleasing.
- I find it heartwarming when strangers help each other.
- Used in journalism and reviews to describe content that uplifts the audience.
- The documentary provides a heartwarming look at the lives of rescue animals.
Variants and Related Words
- Heartwarmingly (adverb): in a manner that causes gladness or emotional warmth.
- The story ended heartwarmingly with the family reunited.
- Heartwarmer (noun, informal): something that is heartwarming.
- That little film is a real heartwarmer.
Synonyms
- Touching: evoking emotion or sympathy.
- Uplifting: making one feel cheerful or hopeful.
- Moving: stirring strong emotions, especially of sympathy or sadness (can be neutral or positive, while is strictly positive).
Antonyms
- Heartbreaking: causing overwhelming distress or sadness.
- Depressing: causing sadness or dejection.
- Disheartening: causing one to lose determination or confidence.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- Warm the cockles of one's heart: to give one a comforting feeling of contentment. (This idiom is conceptually similar but more figurative and old-fashioned.)
- Their generosity really warmed the cockles of my heart.
Adjective
- causing gladness and pleasure
- Is there a sight more heartwarming than a family reunion?