noun
1. garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
• Syn: ↑lyreflower, ↑lyre-flower, ↑Dicentra spectabilis
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dicentra, ↑genus Dicentra
2. someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged
• Hypernyms: ↑sympathizer, ↑sympathiser, ↑well-wisher
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a person who is too kind and sympathetic towards people that other people think do not deserve kindness
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a bleeding-heart liberal
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All the bleeding hearts and socialists oppose the changes to the immigration law.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.