Dictionary Definition
heartthrob n : an object of infatuation
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Pronunciation
Noun
- A heartbeat
- The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart
- A usually handsome movie star who plays romantic roles
Extensive Definition
A heartthrob was refer to:
- Heartthrob - a culturally popular term particularly in western society for a top looking man with sex appeal. The term is used regularly in celebrity magazines and programmes to describe those who apparently get female "hearts throbbing".
- Heartthrob (Angel episode) An episode of the TV series Angel.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affect,
affection, arrhythmia, beat, beating, beloved, darling, drumming, emotion, emotional charge,
emotional shade, experience, feeling, feeling tone, flame, flutter, foreboding, gut reaction,
heartbeat, honey, impression, love, palpitation, passion, pitapat, pitter-patter, presentiment, profound
sense, pulsation,
pulse, rat-a-tat, rataplan, reaction, response, rhythm, sensation, sense, sentiment, staccato, throb, throbbing, turtledove, undercurrent