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chaleureux

Pronunciation: /ʃa.lœ.ʁø/

“chaleureux” is a French word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. Physically warm, radiating warmth.
  2. agreeable for its own qualities.
  3. Rich in alcohol, feeling physically warm.
  4. warm.
  5. ardent, excited, emotive; especially, warm, cordial, showing affection.
  6. expressive; showing the author's or artist's feelings.
  7. animated, as of a discussion.
  8. Quick to anger.

noun

  1. a warm, emotive person.
  2. a soft, expressive style of literature or art.

In French

  1. Qui manifeste de la chaleur. Ne s’emploie plus qu’au figuré.

Etymology

From chaleur + -eux. Compare Spanish caluroso.

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