hearty

«hearty» in Mova's school dictionary: Loud, cheerful and friendly: a hearty laugh, a hearty… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (hearty, heartier, heartiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Loud, cheerful and friendly: a hearty laugh, a hearty welcome. tree →

2) (of food) Large, warm and filling: a hearty breakfast, hearty soup. tree →

3) Strong and healthy: hale and hearty. tree →

4) Sincere and strongly felt: hearty thanks. tree →

5) Hearty can also be a friendly way of addressing someone, as in "my hearty", an old sailor's word for a good mate. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life «hearty» describes big meals after a cold walk, and loud, warm greetings. In stories it describes jolly characters like sailors, farmers or Father Christmas. Phrases: a hearty meal, hearty laugh, hale and hearty, hearty congratulations.

examples

• We had a hearty breakfast of porridge and eggs. tree →
• Grandad gave a hearty laugh at my joke. tree →
• The farmer gave us a hearty welcome. tree →
• Hearty soup is perfect on a cold winter day. tree →
• Great-gran is 95 and still hale and hearty. tree →
• The team gave hearty thanks to their coach. tree →
• Didst never want to be a pirate, my hearty?” tree →

note

Comparative: heartier, heartiest. Adverb: heartily (eat heartily, laugh heartily). Different from «heartfelt» (deeply sincere) and from «hardy» (tough, able to survive hard conditions).

In the corpora

• Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hearty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.