bleeding-hearts
Soft on suffering
Bleeding-hearts is a plant with heart-shaped pink or red flowers that dangle from arching stems, named for their appearance of dripping.
The plural typically refers to the plants themselves or multiple specimens: The bleeding-hearts along the fence are blooming.
For the political sense—people considered excessively sympathetic to the disadvantaged—see bleeding heart.
Left-wing political adherents
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- do-goodersPeople who help others ostentatiously
- activistsPeople working for causes
- idealistsPursuers of perfect visions
reformers · humanitarians · sympathizers · sentimentalists · lefties · compassionate · naive · permissive
liberals
Left-wing political adherents
- progressivesSocial reform advocates
- do-goodersPeople who help others ostentatiously
- activistsPeople working for causes
idealists · reformers · humanitarians · sympathizers · sentimentalists · lefties · compassionate · naive · permissive · empathizers
perennial
Recurring each year
ornamental · woodland · delicate · romantic · tuberous · rhizome · heirloom · old-fashioned
bleeding-heartshardliners
Uncompromising faction members
hard-liners · hawks · right-wingers · conservatives · reactionaries
bleeding-heartscold fish
Unfriendly, unfeeling person
realists · hard-hearted · unfeeling · hard-noses · pragmatists
bleeding, heart, hearts, bleed, bleeds, bled, bleeder, bleeders, hearted