adjective
- Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness.
- usage: "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome"
- Providing abundant nourishment.
- usage: "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"
- synonyms: satisfying, solid, square, substantial
- Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health.
- usage: "a hearty glow of health"
- synonyms: full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded
- Consuming abundantly and with gusto.
- usage: "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"
- Without reservation.
- usage: "hearty support"
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