Hearty

Definition: Hearty

Hearty

Adjective

1. Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome".

2. Providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast".

3. Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health".

4. Consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite".

5. Without reservation; "hearty support".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hearty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Hearty \Heart"y\, adjective. [Comparative Heartier; superlative Heartiest.]. (references)

Synonyms: Hearty

Amusement

Giggle, titter, snicker, crow, cheer, chuckle, shout; horse laugh, belly laugh, hearty laugh; guffaw; burst of laughter, fit of laughter, shout of laughter, roar of laughter, peal of laughter; cachinnation; Kentish fire; tiger.

Cheerfulness

Winsome, bonny, hearty, buxom.

Feeling

Earnest, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent; fervid; gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling over.

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Friendship

Adjective: friendly; amicable, amical; well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.

Health

On one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected.

Adjective: healthy, healthful; in health; Noun: well, sound, hearty, hale, fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust, vigorous, weatherproof.

Sociality

Welcome, welcomeness; greeting; hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception; urbanity; (courtesy); familiarity.

Willingness

Docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible, easily persuaded, facile, easy-going; tractable; (pliant); genial, gracious, cordial, cheering, hearty; content; (assenting).

Crosswords: Hearty

Presumably I'm the condemned man and obviously you're the hearty breakfast (Diamonds Are Forever; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

Well, then, it's really great that you're starting out with a nice, hearty breakfast (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

Although I might be laughing loud and hearty ("The Tracks of My Tears"; performing artist: The Miracles)

Hale and Hearty (1922)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• 1,001 Low-Fat Soups & Stews: From Elegant Classics to Hearty One-Pot Meals (reference)

• Great Chicken Dishes: 325 Delicious Recipes-- From Light Salads to Hearty Stews (reference)

• Hearty Soups & Stews (Great Taste, Low Fat) (reference)

• Soup's on: Sixty Hearty Soups You Can Stand Your Spoon in (reference)

• The Complete Quick & Hearty Cookbook (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Hearty Response (reference)

• Hearty New England Dinners (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pardon My Doo-Wah/Hefti, Hot, 'n Hearty (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The hearty flavor of corn flour products like tortillas and taco shells is largely the work of a natural compound identified by ARS scientists. They have pinpointed 2-amino-acetophenone as key to flavor and aroma of yellow corn tortilla flour. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks almost always include foods made from hearty wheat. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller..

After 4 hours hard work, volunteers were treated to a hearty lunch supplied by Wolftree Inc. Credit: Scott Brayton.

Hearty laughter by both men. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vice President Thomas R. Marshall receiving a hearty cheer from Senate pages after he invited them to a Christmas dinner, standing on U.S. Capitol steps. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

John, sit you down, my hearty.

Certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Austria

Highly choreographed and high-pressure sales techniques, for example, or hearty friendliness to someone just met, are absolutely alien to Austria, and are an almost surefire way to bring an early end to negotiations. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Although hand shaking is a common practice, avoid hearty handshakes and other physical contact. (references)

Vietnam

Traveling by train or bus is recommended only to the most seasoned and hearty of travelers as it is uncomfortable and (due to infrastructure and maintenance problems) dangerous. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hearty": be hale and hearty ♦ give a hearty welcome to ♦ hale and hearty ♦ hearty appetite ♦ hearty laugh ♦ hearty meal ♦ hearty thanks ♦ hearty welcome. Additional references.

Afrikaans

innig (above-board, cardiac, close, cordial, intimate, sincere, warm). (various references)

Albanian

me gjithë shpirt, kumbuese, i shëndetshëm (bonny, fit, flourishing, Hale, healthful, healthy, lush, lusty, salubrious, sleek, sound, upstanding, viable, well fed, wholesome), i paqmë (clean, hefty), i përzemërt (amiable, cordial, genial, good natured, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, loving, neighborly, neighbourly, warmhearted, wholehearted), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, orotund, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i bollshëm (affluent, ample, exuberant, fat, flush, fulsome, generous, good, heavy, lavish, liberal, man-sized, over, plenteous, plenty, profuse, spacious), i çiltër (artless, candid, direct, downright, forthright, genuine, guileless, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, innocent, open, open-hearted, plain, plain spoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, wholehearted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخلص (adherent, candid, constant, devoted, devout, earnest, faithful, heartfelt, honest, loyal, mentor, open-hearted, sincere, staunch, steadfast, true, true-hearted, truthful, whole-hearted), ‏قلبي (cordial, coronary, inner), ‏قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏حماسى, ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърдечен (cardiac, cheery, cordial, expansive, genial, kind, lusty, mellow, openhearted, pressing, warm), смелчага (bulldog, daredevil, desperado, spartan), спортист (athlete, sportsman), шумен и весел, крепък (tenacious), голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, proper, vast, vasty, walloping), възторжен (ecstatic, enthusiastic, rapturous, rhapsodic, rousing, whole-hearted), обилен (abundant, affluent, ample, exuberant, full, generous, liberal, lusty, plentiful, rich, satisfying, ungrudging), моряк (flatfoot, jolly, mariner, navigator, sailor, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, swab, tar, tarpaulin), здрав (blooming, durable, entire, fast, fit, flourishing, flush, good, hard, healthful, healthy, hefty, invulnerable, lasting, laudable, lusty, nervous, nervy, reliable, right, robust, rubbery, rude, rugged, safe, salubrious, seaworthy, secure, serviceable, sinewy, sleek, sober, sound, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, stout, strapping, strong, sturdy, substantial, sure footed, taintless, tenacious, thickset, uncorrupted, up to the mark, vigorous, well, well-conditioned, without scathe), еснафски (philistine, suburban), енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, enterprising, firm, go-go, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), плодороден (benign, benignant, corny, fat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, generous, plenteous, productive, prolific, rank, rich), искрен (bona fide, candid, cordial, deep-felt, devout, earnest, genuine, heart-to-heart, honest, outright, outspoken, plain, prayerful, sincere, single, single-eyed, unalloyed, unfeigned, unreserved, untutored). (various references)

Chinese 

誠懇 , 热诚. (various references)

Czech

vydatný (meaty, plentiful, satisfying, substantial), velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, grave, great, gross, heavy, high, intense, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), vřelý (boiling, fervid, heartfelt, piping hot, warm), srdeèný (affectionate, cordial, feeling, genial, heartfelt, home-felt, open armed, warm, warmhearted), přátelský (amicable, comradely, cordial, friendly, kind, neighborly, sociable, well disposed). (various references)

Danish

hjertelig (cardiac, cordial, warm), hjerte- (cardiac, cordial, heart-, warm). (various references)

Dutch

innig (above-board, cardiac, close, cordial, intimate, sincere, warm). (various references)

Esperanto

kora (cardiac, cordial, heart-). (various references)

Faeroese

hjartaligur (above-board, cardiac, cordial, sincere, warm). (various references)

Farsi 

مقوی (Cordial, Tonic), قلبی (Cardiac, Cordial, Heartfelt), صمیمانه (Earnest), دلچسب (Meet). (various references)

Finnish

sydämellinen (cordial, heartfelt, kind). (various references)

French

cordial. (various references)

Frisian

hertlik (cardiac, cordial, warm). (various references)

German

herzlich (affectionate, cordial, cordially, heartfelt, heartily, sincere, warm, warmly), herzhaft (brave, firm, lustily, lusty, strong, substantial). (various references)

Greek 

ρωμαλέοσ (brawny, husky, incisive, lusty, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy), εγκάρδιοσ (cheery, cordial, genial, heartfelt, whole-hearted), ειλικρινήσ (candid, direct, forthright, open, open-faced, outspoken, sincere, single minded, single-hearted, straightforward, true blue, whole-hearted). (various references)

Hebrew 

לבבי (bluff, cordial, genial, heartfelt, intimate, open armed, warm). (various references)

Hungarian

tápláló (afferent, alimentary, feeder, feeding, nourishing, nurturer, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive, rich, substantial, sustaining, wholesome), derék ember (heart of oak, waist, white man). (various references)

Icelandic

hjartanlegur (cardiac, cordial, warm). (various references)

Indonesian

mesra (fervent). (various references)

Italian

cordiale (cordial, genial, neighborly, neighbourly, pick me up, restorative, sociable, sympathetic, warm, warm-hearted, wholehearted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

豪快 (exciting, heroic, largehearted, lively, splendid, stirring). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ごうかい (exciting, heroic, largehearted, lively, splendid, stirring). (various references)

Manx

follan (bracing, edible, fit to eat, genial, healthy, incorrupt, orthodox, solvent, sound, whole, wholesome), creeoil (cheerful, inspiring). (various references)

Norwegian

hjertelig (cardiac, cordial, heartily, warm). (various references)

Papiamen

kordial (cardiac, cordial, warm). (various references)

Pig Latin

eartyhay.(various references)

Polish

serdeczny (cardiac, cordial, warm). (various references)

Portuguese

cordial (amicable, cardiac, cordial, friendly, genial, heartfelt, warm). (various references)

Romanian

viguros (bouncing, chopping, emphatic, forceful, forcible, forcibly, full-blooded, green, Hale, Hardy, hot stuff, humming, intense, lusty, nervous, pithy, potent, red blooded, robust, rude, sapful, sinewy, stalwart, stout, stoutly, strapping, strong, strong-limbed, thriving, tough, vigorous, vigorously), verde (green, new, spades, unripe, verdant, verdure), sincer (above board, artless, authentic, blunt, candid, candidly, childlike, devout, downright, fair, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, genuine, guileless, heartfelt, heart-whole, honest, honestly, ingenuous, kind, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, plain, plainly, right-down, round, sincere, single, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, undisguised, unfeigned, unpretending, unreserved, well-meant), intim (close, cordial, familiar, friendly, heart-to-heart, home-felt, homelike, in, innermost, internal, intimate, inward, mutual, near, private), cordial (cordial, cordially, genial, good humoured, good-humored, heart-felt, kind, responsive, sincere, stimulating, true, warm, whole heartedly, whole-hearted), consistent (consistent, consistently, solid, substantial). (various references)

Russian 

искренний (candid, devout, earnest, explicit, genuine, heartfelt, heart-whole, honest, outspoken, sincere, single minded, true-hearted, unaffected, unfeigned, wholehearted, whole-hearted, wholeheartedly). (various references)

Scottish

cridheil. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

srdačan (cordial, friendly, genial, kind, open armed, outgiving, true-hearted, warm, warmhearted, warm-hearted), čio (corky, hale, lively, sprightly, vivacious). (various references)

Spanish

cordial (amiable, comradely, cordial, friendly, heartfelt). (various references)

Swedish

hjärtlig (backslapping, cardiac, cordial, warm), innerlig (devout, fervent, fond, heartfelt, home-felt, intimate). (various references)

Thai

กระชุ่มกระชวย (hale, hale and hearty, reactivate), มีสุขภาพดี (fit as a butcher's dog, hale and hearty). (various references)

Turkish

zinde (crispy, fit, fresh, Hale, sinewed, sinewy, vigorous), yürekten (deep, deep-felt, from one's heart, heartfelt), sağlam (able bodied, bankable, bouncing, calculable, cast iron, consolidated, dyed in grain, fast, firm, flat-footed, foolproof, foursquare, gilt-edged, good, granitic, Hale, hard, healthy, indissoluble, invulnerable, lusty, responsible, rugged, runproof, safe, scatheless, secure, secured, solid, sound, stable, stalwart, stanch, staunch, steady, steely, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, sure, tough, unfaltering, unshakable, unshaken, valid, whole), kuvvetli (Doughty, energetic, forceful, heady, healty, intense, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powered, powerful, retentive, robust, rugged, sappy, sinewed, sinewy, sound, stalwart, stout, strong, swinging, tenacious, vigorous, virile, virulent), içten (bluff, bona fide, candid, childlike, cordial, deep, deeply, devout, earnest, faithful, familiar, forthright, genuine, gut, hail-fellow-well-met, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, honest, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, ingenuous, internally, inwardly, kindly, open, open armed, openhearted, open-hearted, sincere, sincerely, true, true-hearted, truly, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unfeigned, whole-hearted), güçlü sporcu, dinç (florid, fresh, Hale, husky, lusty, red blooded, robust, sinewed, sinewy, spry, succulent, upstanding, vigorous, youthful), canlandırıcı (animator, bracing, crispy, enlivening, exhilarating, invigorating, refreshing, regenerative, restorative, stiffener, stimulus, tonic, uplifting), canlı ve dinç adam, canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), candan (bluff, candid, companionable, cordial, cordially, deep-felt, genially, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, open armed, open-hearted, personable, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, whole-hearted, willing, with open arms), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unsparing, unstinted, wealthy, wide), çok (a great number of, a lot, a whale of, a whale of a lot, abounding, abundant, acres and acres, affluent, ample, awfully, badly, big, bloody, countless, damned, darned, dead, deadly, deeply, enormously, ever so, exuberant, fair, fantastically, galore, good, greatly, heaps of, heartily, heavily, heavy, hell, hell of, helluva, highly, innumerable, jolly, largely, lavish, like hell, loads of, lot, lots of, many, molto, more, much, multi-, multitudinous, numerous, over, piping, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plenty of, poly-, precious, pretty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rattling, revoltingly, sadly, so, some, sorely, spanking, strongly, such, thundering, tidy, too, umpteen, umpteenth, umptieth, vast, vastly, very, well, whaling, whopping). (various references)

Turkmen 

ykjam (strong). (various references)

Ukrainian

сердечний (kind, warm, warm-hearted), щирий (candid, cordial, devout, earnest, genuine, heartfelt, ingenuous, onefold, open armed, outspoken, pure-minded, simple, sincere, true-hearted, unaffected, whole-hearted, whole-souled), гостинний (hospitable, open), здоровий (able bodied, bonny, full-blooded, healthful, healthy, hygienic, hygienical, robust, salubrious, salutary, sound, well, well-conditioned), дужий парубок, дружній (amiable, amicable, downstage, friendly, homelike, officious). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humored, good-humoured, heartily, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), tráng kiện thịnh soạn, thật tâm; thật lòng mạnh khoẻ, thân mật (amicable, chummy, conversant, cordial, friendly, hail-fellow, hail-fellow-well-met, heartily, intimate, intimately, matey, maty), nồng nhiệt thành thật (heartily), chân thật (artless, bluff, genuine, heart-whole, onefold, open-hearted, right-minded, round, simple-minded, single-hearded), cường tráng (lusty). (various references)

Welsh

calonnog (high-spirited). (various references)

vigoratus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Hearty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: earty, hairty, Hartie, harty, healt, healty, hearby, hearsy, hearte, Heartly, hearye, heaty, Heery, heory, Heraty, Herrity, herty, Hoarty, Hogarty, hoorty, Horty, Huatay, hurty, nearty, Negarty. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: earthy.

-1 letter: earth, hater, hayer, heart, rathe, rhyta, teary.

-2 letters: aery, arty, eath, eyra, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, hyte, rate, rath, rhea, tahr, tare, tear, thae, they, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, yeah, year.

-3 letters: are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, era, eta, eth, hae, hat, hay, her, het, hey, rah, rat, ray.

+1 letter: breathy, earthly, hydrate, lathery, therapy, thready, wreathy, yachter.

+2 letters: chattery, earthily, erythema, eurybath, fatherly, feathery, hatchery, heartily, heathery, hydrated, hydrates, hysteria, leathery, lethargy, thearchy, trachyte, yachters, yahrzeit.

+3 letters: anhydrite, archetype, athrocyte, breathily, champerty, dehydrate, diathermy, erythemas, eurybaths, hairstyle, hemelytra, heptarchy, hysterias, mythmaker, overhasty, pentarchy, rehydrate, seaworthy, teacherly, tetrarchy, theocracy, thermally, tracheary, trachytes, treachery, unearthly, weatherly, yahrzeits.