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Definition of Hearty

1. Adjective. Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness. "A hearty welcome"

2. Adjective. Providing abundant nourishment. "Four square meals a day"

3. Adjective. Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health. "A hearty glow of health"

4. Adjective. Consuming abundantly and with gusto. "A hearty (or healthy) appetite"

5. Adjective. Without reservation. "Hearty support"

Definition of Hearty

1. a. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

2. n. Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Definition of Hearty

1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government. ¹

2. Adjective. Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a '''hearty''' timber. ¹

3. Adjective. Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a '''hearty''' meal. ¹

4. Noun. (obsolete) : Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. Dickens. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hearty

1. very friendly [adj HEARTIER, HEARTIEST] : HEARTILY [adv] / a comrade [n HEARTIES] - See also: comrade

Medical Definition of Hearty

1. 1. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government. "Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss." (Marston) 2. Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak; as, a hearty timber. 3. Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal. Synonym: Sincere, real, unfeigned, undissembled, cordial, earnest, warm, zealous, ardent, eager, active, vigorous. Hearty, Cordial, Sincere. Hearty implies honesty and simplicity of feelings and manners; cordial refers to the warmth and liveliness with which the feelings are expressed; sincere implies that this expression corresponds to the real sentiments of the heart. A man should be hearty in his attachment to his friends, cordial in his reception of them to his house, and sincere in his offers to assist them. Origin: Heartier; Heartiest. Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearty

heartswelling heartthrob heartthrobs heartwarmer heartwarmers heartwarming heartwarmingly heartwhole heartwood heartwoods

heartworm heartworms heartwrenching heartyhale heast heaste heastes heasts heat-absorbing heat-curing resin

heat-labile heat-releasing heat-resistant heat-rigor point heat-seal heat-sealed

Literary usage of Hearty

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1853)
"You have fought eo stoutly for us, you have been so hearty in counselling of us, that I shall never forget your favour towards us. MER. ..."

2. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1874)
"... outside as well as in the world of newspapers, nothing in connection with them delighted the writer half so much as the hearty praise of his own editor. ..."

3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"Her lips told me the bitter, the necessary, the unexpected truth; her hearty kindness sustained me under the shock of hearing it; her sense and courage ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"To Miss Helen Kendrick Johnson belongs the credit ol this and scenes of home life with such fidelity, and with such hearty appreciation of the best and ..."

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