quick-hearted

English

Adjective

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

  1. Easily induced to feel emotion.
    • 1912, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Buddhism: A Study of the Buddhist Norm, page 65:
      To these impulsive, quick-hearted children of the sun, impressions on their swift and delicate sense were interesting and absorbing chiefly as feeling, pleasant, painful or neutral.
    • 2003, John Michael Cooper, Mendelssohn's 'Italian' Symphony, page 218:
      It is no stretch of the imagination to suppose the Carnival, with the vivacity that here is known but as a traveller's tale of the quick-hearted Italian, the ubiquitous life, the perpetual motion, the sunshine all through and through one's feelings, and one's thoughts and its reflection on our actions, and our influence on others; […]
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