bleeding heart — bleeding hearts also bleeding heart N COUNT: oft N n (disapproval) If you describe someone as a bleeding heart, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help … English dictionary
bleeding heart — noun 1. garden plant having deep pink drooping heart shaped flowers • Syn: ↑lyreflower, ↑lyre flower, ↑Dicentra spectabilis • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bleeding heart — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms bleeding heart : singular bleeding heart plural bleeding hearts someone who shows too much sympathy for people with social or financial problems, in a way that you think is annoying and not practical … English dictionary
bleeding heart — (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) n. one who is given to excessive sympathy and may be over eager to help. The bleeding hearts in Washington wanted to start a new welfare program. SYN.: sentimental fool, liberal, *softy, sympathizer,… … English dictionary for students
Hearts — This article is about the card game. For the Scottish football club, see Heart of Midlothian F.C.. For other uses, see Hearts (disambiguation). Hearts An evasion type trick taking game for 3–6 players The Hearts penalty cards; the object of… … Wikipedia
bleeding heart — Synonyms and related words: aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos, bitterness, bowels of compassion, broken heart, brokenheartedness, cloyingness, compassionateness, crushing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair,… … Moby Thesaurus
hearts-and-flowers — Synonyms and related words: bathos, bleeding heart, cloyingness, goo, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby pamby, namby pambyism, namby pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, romanticism, sentiment,… … Moby Thesaurus
Luzon Bleeding-heart — Taxobox name = Luzon Bleeding Heart Pigeon image width = 200px status = NT | status system = IUCN3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Columbiformes familia = Columbidae genus = Gallicolumba species = G. luzonica binomial … Wikipedia
Sulu Bleeding-heart — Taxobox name = Sulu Bleeding heart status = CR | status system = IUCN3.1 trend = down regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Columbiformes familia = Columbidae genus = Gallicolumba species = G. menagei binomial = Gallicolumba… … Wikipedia
(a) bleeding heart — someone who shows too much sympathy for everyone. The anti hunting campaigners are just a bunch of bleeding hearts who don t understand the countryside … New idioms dictionary
