Other forms: heartier, heartiest
Hearty means warm and enthusiastic, or large and satisfying. A hearty welcome, a hearty meal, hearty laughter.
Of a greeting it means unreserved; of food it means filling and plain. Applied to a person it can be faintly critical — somebody hearty is loud and cheerful in a way that can wear you out. Hale and hearty means healthy in old age.
1adjectiveheartyWarm and enthusiastic, or large and satisfying.
“After the long walk, we sat down to a hearty meal of stew and bread.”
hearty is a quality.
Heart plus -y. The senses all come from the heart as the seat of feeling and of vigour.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱerd-
Middle English
herte
English
heart
English, today
hearty
Built from
Equivalent to heart + y. heart comes from Middle English herte. From Middle English harte, heorrte, hert, herte, hierte, hirte, horte, huerte, hurte, from Old English heorte (“heart”), from Proto-West Germanic hertā, from Proto-Germanic hertô (“heart”), from Proto-Indo-European ḱḗr (“heart”), from ḱerd- (“heart”). a doublet of cardia; see also core. 2
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