simple-hearted

See also: simplehearted

English

Alternative forms

• simplehearted

Etymology

simple +‎ hearted

Adjective

simple-hearted (comparative more simple-hearted, superlative most simple-hearted)

1. sincere; ingenuous; guileless
   • 1824 June, [Walter Scott], Redgauntlet, […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     He exhibited his client as a simple-hearted, honest, well-meaning man, who, during a copartnership of twelve years, had gradually become impoverished

   • 2015, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, →ISBN:

     “My dear friend, above all things I want to behave like a gentleman and to be recognised as such,” the visitor began in an access of deprecating and simple-hearted pride, typical of a poor relation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “simple-hearted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Derived terms

• simple-heartedly
• simple-heartedness

 

Translations

sincere, ingenuous, guileless — see also artless,‎ guileless,‎ ingenuous

• Belarusian: прастаду́шны (prastadúšny)
• Polish: prostoduszny (pl)
• Russian: простоду́шный (ru) (prostodúšnyj)
• Ukrainian: простоду́шний (prostodúšnyj)