Word Meanings - SIMPLE-HEARTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sincere; inguenuous; guileless. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to SIMPLE-HEARTED)

• SINCERELY
  In a sincere manner. Specifically: Purely; without alloy. Milton. Honestly; unfeignedly; without dissimulation; as, to speak one's mind sincerely; to love virtue sincerely.
• SINCERENESS
  See FL
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• SINCERE
  sincerus, of uncertain origin; the first part perhaps akin to sin- in singuli , and the second to cernere to separate (cf. 1. Pure; unmixed; unadulterated. There is no sincere acid in any animal juice. Arbuthnot. A joy which never was sincere
• GUILELESS
  Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv. Guile"less*ness, n.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• UNSINCERE
  Not sincere or pure; insincere. Dryden. -- Un`sin*cere"ness, n.
• INSINCERELY
  Without sincerity.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• INSINCERE
  1. Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations. 2. Disappointing; imperfect; unsound. To render