Usually means: Compassionate, often excessively or sentimentally.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word bleeding heart:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Merriam-Webster
  2. bleeding heart: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bleeding heart: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bleeding heart: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bleeding heart: Vocabulary.com
  6. bleeding-heart: Wordnik
  7. bleeding heart: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Wiktionary
  9. bleeding heart: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bleeding heart: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Dictionary.com
  12. Bleeding Heart (album), Bleeding Heart (film), Bleeding Heart (song), Bleeding heart: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. bleeding heart: Rhymezone
  14. bleeding heart: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bleeding heart: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. bleeding heart: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bleeding heart (plant), bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleeding-heart, bleeding heart: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bleeding Heart: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bleeding heart: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bleeding_hearts as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bleeding heart)

noun:  Any of various perennial plants, of the family Papaveraceae, subfamily Fumarioideae, often having pink heart-shaped flowers, including:
noun:  Lamprocapnos spectabilis (formerly Dicentra spectabilis), a popular garden plant with arching sprays of pendent red and white (or pure white) flowers.
noun:  Dicentra, a genus native to eastern Asia and North America, some species with colors and shape similar to Lamprocapnos spectabilis.
noun:  Ehrendorferia, a genus native to California, usually with yellow flowers of similar shape.
noun:  Dactylicapnos, a genus native to Himalayas and mountainous areas of South China, Burma and Vietnam, usually with yellow flowers of similar shape.
noun:  Flowering shrubs, lianas, or small trees of the mint family Lamiaceae, in the genus Clerodendrum.
noun:  The bleeding heart tree, Homalanthus populifolius, an Australian rainforest plant.
noun:  A person who is overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged, exploited or helpless, or to casualties of circumstance.

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