hearty
UK/ˈhɑːti//ˈhɑɹti/
hearty adjective: warm and cordial towards another person.
Adjective
hearty (comparative heartier, superlative heartiest)
- Warm and cordial towards another person.
- a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
- We, full of hearty tears / For our good father's lossc. 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent, act IV, scene I
- Synonyms:
- sincere, real, unfeigned, undissembled, earnest, affectionate, caring, cordial, dear, fond
- Energetic, active or eager.
- a hearty appetite
- Cheerful; vivacious.
- a hearty fellow
- Synonyms:
- ebullient, joyful, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome, bonnie, bright
- Exhibiting strength; firm; courageous.
- a hearty handshake; a hearty timber
- Promoting strength; nourishing.
- hearty food
- 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...1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv
- Synonyms:
- substantial
Noun
hearty (plural hearties)
- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
- “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.”1849, Herman Melville, chapter VI, in Redburn. His First Voyage
hearty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
hearty in Hindi
- दिलदार
hearty in Tamil
- உள்ளார்ந்த, நெஞ்சார்ந்த, மனமுவந்த
hearty in Urdu
- دلی, مخلص, پرتپاک, قلبی, قریبی
hearty in Bengali
- আন্তরিক, পুষ্টিকর, প্রাণবন্ত
More languagesFewer languages
- hearty in Malayalam
- ഹൃദയംഗമമായ, നല്ല ആരോഗ്യമുള്ള, വിഭവ സമൃദ്ധമായ
- hearty in Kannada
- ಮನಸಾರೆ, ಮನತುಂಬಿ, ನಲ್ಮೆಯ, ಸವಿಯಾದ
Examples of hearty in a sentence
- 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company...
- […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- This was my first hearty meal since my arrival in England.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiv
- Broccoli florets come into play as a hearty stand-in.2025 February 3, Andrew Gray, “7 Tasty Green Peas Substitutes: Explore New Flavors”, in CooksCrafter:
Synonyms of hearty
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Forms of hearty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | heartier |
| superlative | heartiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | hearties |
Origin of hearty
Equivalent to heart + -y.
Words formed from hearty
Phrases with hearty
Words that rhyme with hearty
Questions about hearty
- What does hearty mean?
- Hearty means warm and cordial towards another person.
- What is hearty in Hindi?
- Hearty in Hindi is दिलदार. See Hearty meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hearty in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is hearty?
- Hearty can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce hearty?
- Hearty is pronounced /ˈhɑɹti/ (US).
Words near hearty in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hearty (page history and authors); hearty (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hearty (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hearty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Hearty (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hearty (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hearty (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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