'Bleeding heart' definitions:
Definition of 'bleeding heart'
(from WordNet)
noun
Garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers [syn: bleeding heart, lyreflower, lyre-flower, Dicentra spectabilis]
noun
Someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged
Definition of 'Bleeding heart'
From: GCIDE
- Dicentra \Di*cen"tra\ (d[-i]*s[e^]n"tr[.a]), Prop. n. [NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ke`ntron spur.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bleeding heart'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- extremity,
- gentleness,
- goo,
- grief,
- heartache,
- heartbreak,
- heartbrokenness,
- hearts-and-flowers,
- heartsickness,
- heartsoreness,
- heavy heart,
- infelicity,
- lenity,
- maudlinness,
- mawkishness,
- melancholia,
- melancholy,
- mercifulness,
- misery,
- mush,
- mushiness,
- namby-pamby,
- namby-pambyism,
- namby-pambyness,
- nostalgia,
- nostomania,
- oversentimentalism,
- oversentimentality,
- prostration,
- romanticism,
- ruthfulness,
- sadness,
- sentiment,
- sentimentalism,
- sentimentality,
- slop,
- sloppiness,
- slush,
- soap opera,
- sob story,
- softheartedness,
- suicidal despair,
- sweetness and light,
- tearjerker,
- tenderness,
- woe,
- wretchedness