hearty

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English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hearty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Equivalent to heart +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hearty (comparative heartier, superlative heartiest)

  1. warm and cordial towards another person
    a hearty welcome;  hearty in supporting the government.
    • c. 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent, Act IV, scene I:
      We, full of hearty tears / For our good father's loss
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 5, in The Celebrity:
      Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎[1]:
      […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well.
  2. Energetic, active or eager.
  3. Cheerful, vivacious.
    a hearty man
  4. Exhibiting strength; firm
    a hearty handshake;  a hearty timber
  5. Promoting strength; nourishing.
    hearty food
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv:
      I launched out in search of a vegetarian restaurant. […] I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart. Before I entered I noticed books for sale exhibited under a glass window near the door. I saw among them Salt's Plea for Vegetarianism. This I purchased for a shilling and went straight to the dining room. This was my first hearty meal since my arrival in England.

Synonyms

  • sincere; real; unfeigned; undissembled; cordial; earnest; warm; zealous; ardent; eager; active; vigorous.

Derived terms

Translations

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Noun

hearty (plural hearties)

  1. (obsolete or humorous nautical) a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
    • 1849, Herman Melville, chapter VI, in Redburn. His First Voyage:
      “Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties, I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”

Anagrams

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