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HEARTY (heartier, heartiest)
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, heartiest Dictionary entry overview: What does hearty mean?
• HEARTY (adjective)
The adjective HEARTY has 5 senses:
1. showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
2. providing abundant nourishment
3. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
4. consuming abundantly and with gusto
5. without reservation
Familiarity information: HEARTY used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: heartiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
Context example:
a hearty welcome
Similar:
warm (psychologically warm; friendly and responsive)
Derivation:
heart (a positive feeling of liking)
heartiness (the quality of hearty sincerity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Providing abundant nourishment
Synonyms:
hearty; satisfying; solid; square; substantial
Context example:
four square meals a day
Similar:
wholesome (conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
Synonyms:
full-blooded; hearty; lusty; red-blooded
Context example:
a hearty glow of health
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Derivation:
heartiness (active strength of body or mind)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Consuming abundantly and with gusto
Context example:
a hearty (or healthy) appetite
Similar:
healthy (having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease)
Derivation:
heartiness (active strength of body or mind)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Without reservation
Context example:
hearty support
Similar:
complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Derivation:
heartiness (the quality of hearty sincerity)
Context examples
“As a chip! Sit ye down, sir. It ain't o' no use saying welcome to you, but you're welcome, kind and hearty.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I'll give him a hearty scolding and bring him over to beg pardon, cried Jo, burning to execute immediate justice.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And it did; for we returned at one o’clock, rested and strengthened by a hearty dinner.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"I'm glad it's over with," he said. "You've treated me like a Christian, an' I'm thankin' you hearty for your kindness."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
So she took another hearty drink, and let the second chicken follow the first.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
This pleased Dorothy, who had eaten nothing but nuts all day, and she made a hearty meal of the ripe fruit.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Down I sat to wait for darkness, and made a hearty meal of biscuit.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Poor Victor was a dead man on the fourth day—a strong, hearty young fellow.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even Jim stopped for a moment as if he were not very sure of himself, but her hearty ways soon set us at our ease.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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