hearty

Plural: hearties

Adjective Satellite

• showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
  • "a hearty welcome"
• providing abundant nourishment
  • "a hearty meal"
• endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
  • "a hearty glow of health"
• consuming abundantly and with gusto
  • "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"
• without reservation
  • "hearty support"

Adj

• Warm and cordial towards another person.
• Energetic, active or eager.
• Cheerful; vivacious.
• Exhibiting strength; firm; courageous.
• Promoting strength; nourishing.

Noun

• A cheerful and robust comrade, especially a sailor.
• a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Adjective

• Showing warm friendliness; vigorous and enthusiastic; substantial.

Examples

• a hearty appetite
• a hearty fellow
• a hearty handshake; a hearty timber
• a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
• hearty food
• His HEARTY laugh echoed as he landed a triple-word score, securing his Words With Friends victory.
• The old Scrabble HEARTY always had a strategic tip or two up his sleeve.

Synonyms

full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded, satisfying, solid, square, substantial, abuzz, affectionate, agile, airy, alive, animate, animated, ardent, avid, berserk, big [⇒ thesaurus] [on], blissed out, blithe, blithesome, bonnie, bright, brisk, bubbly, buoyant, busy, busy as a bee, buxom, buzzing, caring, cheerful, cheerly, cheery, chuffed, cock-a-hoop, content, contented, convivial, cordial, delighted, diligent, driven, driving, dynamic, eager, earnest, ebullient, ecstatic, effervescent, elated, energetic, enthusiastic, euphoric, excited, exhilarated, expeditious, exuberant, exultant, fanatic, fanatical, fat and happy, fervent, fervid, feverish, fond, friendly, frisky, gassed, gay, gayful, geeked, glad, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, glowing, good-natured, goodhearted, gung ho, hale, happy, happy as Larry, happy as a clam, happy as a clam at high water, happy as a lark, happy as a pig in mud, happy as a pig in shit, happy as a prince, happy as the day is long, hardy, heartfelt, hearty, high on life, high-spirited, impassioned, impetuous, industrious, jovial, joyful, juiced, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindsome, kinetic, lit up, lively, loving, mad, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, mirthsome, mobile, motivated, moving, nimble, on cloud nine, over the moon, overjoyed, overjoyous, pacific, passionate, peppy, perky, placated, pleased, raring, real, restive, rip-roaring, robust, satisfied, sincere, snappy, softhearted, souped-up, spirited, sprightly, sprunt, spry, stalwart, stimulated, tender, tenderhearted, thrilled, tickled pink, torrid, triumphant, undissembled, unfeigned, vehement, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm, warm-hearted, wealful, wild, worked up, wrought-up, zealous, zestful, zippy

Antonyms

heartless, unhearty

Related Words

lose heart, take heart, HEARTILY

Anagrams of hearty