heart
heart is a 5-letter English word with 21 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
- noun. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
- noun. The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
- noun. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
- noun. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
- noun. That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
- noun. One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
- noun. Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
- noun. A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
- transitive verb. To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
- intransitive verb. To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
- noun. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it
"he led the queen of hearts"
"hearts were trumps"
- noun. an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
"he had a change of heart"
- noun. the courage to carry on
"he kept fighting on pure spunk"
"you haven't got the heart for baseball"
- noun. the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body
"he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
- noun. the locus of feelings and intuitions
"in your heart you know it is true"
"her story would melt your bosom"
- noun. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
"the gist of the prosecutor's argument"
"the heart and soul of the Republican Party"
- noun. a positive feeling of liking
"he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"
"the child won everyone's heart"
- noun. a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)
"a five-pound beef heart will serve six"
- noun. an area that is approximately central within some larger region
"it is in the center of town"
"they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"
- noun. a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines
"he drew a heart and called it a valentine"
Synonyms
spirit, mettle, nerve, spunk, pump, ticker, bosom, center, centre, core, essence, gist, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, pith, substance, sum, affection, fondness, philia, tenderness
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in heart:
earth, harte, hater, herat, rathe
Common word forms
hearts, hearted, hearten, heartly, heartful, hearting, heartless
Words from these letters
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