Word family noun heart heartlessness heartiness adjective heartened ≠ disheartened heartening ≠ disheartening heartless hearty verb hearten ≠ dishearten adverb heartily heartlessly hearteningly ≠ dishearteningly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishheartyheart‧y /ˈhɑːti $ ˈhɑːrti/ adjective 1 FRIENDLYhappy and friendly and usually loud a hearty laugh2 old-fashionedHEALTHY strong and healthy → hale and hearty at hale3 DFa hearty meal is very large4 especially British EnglishFRIENDLY with a friendly, noisy, and happy manner that is not sincere —heartiness noun [uncountable] → heartilyExamples from the Corpus
hearty• I am in hearty agreement with you, and privately I am quite prepared to subscribe towards it.• Garofalo has a hearty, deep voice.• We hike back to camp and begin preparing a hearty dinner, when up rides a lone horseman.• Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot.• A hearty soup for a cold fall or winter supper always seems like the right ticket.• a hearty split-pea soup• But the delicious food had been too delicate for their hearty taste.• We received a hearty welcome. 