heart-shaped

See also: heartshaped

English

a heart-shaped strawberry

chocolates in a heart-shaped box

Real hearts, in humans or other animals, have various shapes.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

heart-shaped (not generally comparable, comparative more heart-shaped, superlative most heart-shaped)

1. Having the traditional, notional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.

   Alternative form: heartshaped

   Synonyms: (of a leaf) cordate, cordiform

   Hypernyms: shaped, formed

   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80:

     It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.

Translations

having the supposed shape of a heart

• Azerbaijani: ürəkvari, ürəyəoxşar
• Catalan: cordiforme
• Danish: hjerteformet
• Dutch: hartvormig (nl)
• Esperanto: korforma (eo)
• Finnish: sydämen muotoinen
• French: en forme de cœur, en cœur, cordiforme (fr)
• Galician: con forma de corazón
• German: herzförmig (de)
• Greek: καρδιόσχημος (el) (kardióschimos), καρδιοειδής (el) (kardioeidís)
• Irish: croíchruthach
• Italian: in forma di cuore, cuoriforme (it)
• Japanese: ハート型 (hātogata)
• Navajo: yaago heeneez, ajéí díshjool nahalingo yaago heeneez
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjerteformet, hjerteforma

  Nynorsk: hjarteforma

• Polish: sercowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: cordiforme (pt)
• Russian: сердцеви́дный (ru) (serdcevídnyj), сердцеобра́зный (ru) (serdceobráznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срцо̀лик, ср̏цаст

  Latin: srcòlik (sh), sȑcast (sh)

• Swedish: hjärtformad (sv)
• Welsh: calonwedd, calonffurf

References

• “heart-shaped”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.