Meaning Of The Word Bleeding heart

Real Dictionary

What's the definition of Bleeding heart? Find Bleeding heart meanings, definitions and more at the Real Dictionary online.

Bleeding heart Meaning

Bleeding heart Definition
Bleeding heart Definition

What's The Definition Of Bleeding heart?

bleeding heart
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.

bleeding heart in American English
any of several dicentras, esp. a common garden perennial (Dicentra spectabilis) with racemes of drooping, deep-pink, heart-shaped flowers
noun: any of various plants belonging to the genus Dicentra, of the fumitory family, esp. D. spectabilis, a common garden plant having long, one-sided clusters of rose or red heart-shaped flowers

bleeding heart in British English
noun: any of several plants of the genus Dicentra, esp the widely cultivated Japanese species D. spectabilis, which has finely divided leaves and heart-shaped nodding pink flowers: family Fumariaceae

More Definitions

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Definitions Of The Day

  • Plasticize ‐ to make or become plastic; to render or become…
  • Microbalance ‐ an extremely sensitive balance, used to weigh…
  • Flypaper ‐ a sticky or poisonous paper set out to catch or…
  • Anesthetic to ‐ incapable of feeling or…
  • Absence ‐ the condition of being absent, or away; noun:…
  • Be a sore point with someone ‐ if a particular subject is a sore point with someone…
  • Lime green ‐ adjective: of a moderate greenish-yellow colour…
  • Overpitch ‐ verb: to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too…
  • Protomorphic ‐ adjective: having a primitive character or structure…
  • Ingress ‐ the act of entering; noun: the act of going in…