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1. Showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
   "a hearty welcome"; "gave us a hearty reception"
    
2. Providing abundant nourishment
   "a hearty meal";
   - satisfying, solid, square, substantial
    
3. Endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
   "a hearty glow of health";
   - full-blooded, lusty, red-blooded
    
4. Consuming abundantly and with gusto
   "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"
    
5. Deeply felt
   "hearty support"

1. A sporty unrefined person
    
2. [Brit, archaic] Comrade, companion, good fellow; a supposed term of familiar address between sailors

Derived forms: heartier, hearties, heartiest

See also: complete, healthy, warm, wholesome

Encyclopedia: Hearty, Paul