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heartfelt

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhɑːt.fɛlt//
  • United States//ˈhɑːɹt.fɛlt//

Believed or felt deeply and sincerely.

adjective

  1. 1

    Believed or felt deeply and sincerely.

    a heartfelt apology

    She expressed her heartfelt sympathies at the death of his mother.

    [T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.

    Infused with family warmth, but with a knowing adult eye on the loss of innocence, it is one of the year's most genuinely heartfelt films.

Etymology

From heart + felt.

Forms

comparative
more heartfelt
superlative
most heartfelt
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).