openhearted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

openhearted
    adj 1: showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and
           generosity; "was charitable in his opinions of others";
           "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words";
           "a large-hearted mentor" [syn: {charitable},
           {benevolent}, {kindly}, {sympathetic}, {good-hearted},
           {openhearted}, {large-hearted}]
    2: freely communicative; candidly straightforward; "openhearted
       advice"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Open-hearted \O"pen-heart`ed\, a.
   Candid; frank; generous. --Dryden. -- {O"pen-heart`ed*ly},
   adv. -- {O"pen-heart`ed*ness}, n. --Walton.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "openhearted":
      amiable, artless, bighearted, bluff, blunt, born yesterday,
      bounteous, bountiful, broad, brusque, candid, childlike, confiding,
      cordial, direct, downright, explicit, forthright, frank,
      frankhearted, free, free-speaking, free-spoken, free-tongued,
      freehanded, freehearted, friendly, generous, genial, genuine,
      giving, gracious, greathearted, guileless, handsome,
      heart-to-heart, hearty, hospitable, ingenu, ingenuous, innocent,
      large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent,
      naive, neighborly, open, openhanded, outspoken, plain,
      plain-spoken, princely, profuse, receptive, round, simple,
      simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted,
      single-minded, stintless, straight, straight-out, straightforward,
      transparent, trustful, trusting, unchecked, unconcealed,
      unconstrained, undisguised, undissembled, undissembling,
      unequivocal, ungrudging, unguarded, unreserved, unrestrained,
      unselfish, unsophisticated, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting,
      unsuspicious, unvarnished, unwary, warm, warmhearted, welcoming