Having a particular kind of heart or character, used in compound words like 'kind-hearted' or 'broken-hearted' to describe someone's emotions or nature.
From Old English 'heorte,' this is a suffix combining form that attaches to adjectives to create compound words describing emotional states or moral character. Used since medieval times.
The word 'hearted' is fascinating because it almost always appears in hyphenated compounds like 'lion-hearted' or 'half-hearted,' and it shows how the heart has symbolized character and emotion across all of English literature. Shakespeare used 'lionhearted' to mean brave, drawing on the metaphor that your inner heart defines your nature.
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