bleeding heart

Speech parts

1. bleeding heart - Noun

2. bleeding heart - Adjective

Meaning

someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged

garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

bleeding-heart

Synonyms

eardrop Dutchman's breeches lyre-flower Dicentra spectabilis lyreflower lady-in-a-bath glorybower bagflower queensland poplar dicentra sympathizer broken heart softie softy do-gooder
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Antonyms

cynic realist pragmatist sceptic doubter tough cookie
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Hypernyms

herb sympathizer sympathiser herbaceous plant well-wisher

Examples

Its rousing bleeding-heart majesty would surely please the Bard. Source: Internet

MK Ben-Ari asks the Knesset to host 100 illegal African infiltrators and see if the “bleeding heart MKs” are willing to take them home. Source: Internet

BTW, I'm not a bleeding heart liberal. Source: Internet

But the South Carolina Legislature is not given to the bleeding-heart arguments that drive such “see no evil, hear no evil” policies. Source: Internet

While I’ve never quite been the bleeding-heart liberal… Source: Internet

Using liberal, bleeding-heart rhetoric in a letter to Rauner, Durbin told the Governor to use the holiday season and take time to meet with Syrian refugees already living in Illinois. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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