heart-shaped

See also: heartshaped

English

Alternative forms

• heartshaped

Adjective

heart-shaped (comparative more heart-shaped, superlative most heart-shaped)

1. Having the traditional shape of a heart (♥), that is pointed at one end and indented at the opposite side.
   • 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:

     […] Passing, I leave thee lilac with heart-shaped leaves, / I leave thee there in the door-yard, blooming, returning with spring.

Synonyms

• cordate (of a leaf, etc)

Hypernyms

• shaped

Related terms

• almond-shaped · banana-shaped · bell-shaped · brickshaped · cone-shaped · cross-shaped · cup-shaped · domeshaped · egg-shaped · funnelshaped · heart-shaped · hourglass-shaped · leaf-shaped · mushroom-shaped · needle-shaped · pear-shaped · ring-shaped · rod-shaped · spindle-shaped · top-shaped · wedge-shaped

Translations

having the supposed shape of a heart

• Azerbaijani: ürəkvari, ürəyəoxşar
• Danish: hjerteformet
• Dutch: hartvormig (nl)
• Finnish: sydämen muotoinen
• French: en forme de cœur, en cœur, cordiforme (fr)
• Galician: con forma de corazón
• German: herzförmig (de)
• Greek: καρδιόσχημος (el) (kardióschimos), καρδιοειδής (el) (kardioeidís)
• Irish: croíchruthach
• Italian: in forma di cuore, cuoriforme (it)
• Japanese: ハート型 (hātogata)
• Navajo: yaago heeneez, ajéí díshjool nahalingo yaago heeneez
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjerteformet, hjerteforma

  Nynorsk: hjarteforma

• Polish: sercowaty (pl)
• Portuguese: cordiforme (pt)
• Russian: сердцеви́дный (ru) (serdcevídnyj), сердцеобра́зный (ru) (serdceobráznyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срцо̀лик, ср̏цаст

  Roman: srcòlik (sh), sȑcast (sh)

• Swedish: hjärtformad (sv)

References

• “heart-shaped”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.