Meaning & use
with all your heart
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Meaning
phrasefixed phrase
With complete sincerity and strong feeling; in a wholehearted way.
Grammar: Used after verbs like love, believe, thank, or agree; the possessive changes with the subject (my, your, his, her, our, their).
Patterns
- love someone with all your heart
- believe something with all your heart
- thank someone with all your heart
She thanked the doctors with all her heart for saving her son.
I believe with all my heart that you did the right thing.
He loved his grandmother with all his heart and visited her every week.
Common combinations
- love someone with all your heart
- I love my daughter with all my heart.
- believe with all your heart
- She believes with all her heart that honesty matters most.
- thank someone with all your heart
- We thank you with all our hearts for your kindness.
- want something with all your heart
- He wanted the job with all his heart, but he didn't get it.
Synonyms and how they differ
- wholeheartedly
- Wholeheartedly is one adverb and sounds slightly more formal; 'with all your heart' is warmer and more personal.
- sincerely
- Sincerely means you are not pretending, but it does not carry the same emotional strength as 'with all your heart'.
Opposites
Commonly confused: with all your heart or by heart?
with all your heart vs by heart
By heart means you have memorized something, as in 'learn a poem by heart'. It is about memory, not strong feeling.
Practice
She thanked the nurses ___ for taking care of her father.
Choose one answer.
'With all her heart' expresses deep, sincere gratitude. 'By heart' means from memory, 'at heart' describes someone's true nature, and 'from the heart' means sincerely but does not fit the fixed pattern 'thank someone with all your heart'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “with all your heart”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.