(superl.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager; as, a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.
(n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Enuresis risoria" or "giggle incontinence" is a particular condition characterized by a sudden, involuntary, uncontrollable and complete emptying of the bladder during giggling or hearty laughter.
(2) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(3) She writes: It used to be that evil finance plots at least had the dignity to be conducted in back rooms, with much mustache-twirling and fondling of watch fobs as well as hearty, if ominous laughs.
(4) Apparently named after Nelson Mandela, everything else about this place is very Greek: hearty portions of local food are served with a smile.
(5) Nordestinos brought their hearty, meaty peasant cuisine with them, and one former factory worker, Jose Oliveira de Almeid, called simply Seu Ze, opened a small restaurant called Mocotó in the working-class suburb of Villa Medeiros.
(6) Cut into fat slices for a hearty pudding in the evening and a yet heartier breakfast the morning after.
(7) Also, hearty snacks should be eaten in limited amounts only because of their high fat and salt content.
(8) Tall, heavy-set, with an astonishing bouffant as solid, glossy and black as polished coal, he exudes the hearty bonhomie of the rugby player he once was.
(9) Photograph: Andy Pietrasik Start with a coffee and croissant at zinc bar Café Tupiña at the bottom end of rue Porte de la Monnaie, and then move on to a hearty lunch at La Tupiña next door, with its huge roaring hearth and spits roasting chickens and racks of lamb.
(10) Many pub landlords have seen the commercial benefits of hearty St Piran's Day celebrations and put on themed events.
(11) At the world premiere in Norwich, there was hearty applause for the scene where Alan flags down a car outside City Hall and asks to be driven to the nearest police station because "There's a guy with a gun!"
(12) The following factors turned out to be statistically significant: irregular meals (less than 3 times a day), living on cold food, the daily use of fried dishes, hurried meals, and hearty supper consisting of three courses.
(13) I don’t want to come off ‘clozo’ just because I put weight on, because the drug has changed my life.” The BHF has funded the Hearty Lives Bolsover project to learn how best to tackle these potentially conflicting priorities and to tailor its “healthy hearts” message to people with a mental illness.
(14) In voterland there are plenty of straightforward hearty men like Abbott and plenty of women who are married to men like him.
(15) Boyle is hearty about her snacks, she has the slightly masculine bearing of the long-term single lady and yet the Nation likes her - it may even love her (in the multimedia sense of that word) and Boyle not only seems quite content with herself, but actually has a remarkable talent of the sort few people associate with plump, cat-owning middle-aged ladies from West Lothian.
(16) 4.40pm BST There have been hearty rounds of applause for the substituted Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana, but Southampton are possibly lamenting their failure to make their first-half dominance count for more.
(17) A beautiful private garden links the two houses and there are hearty organic breakfasts, too.
(18) This is a strange notion: yes, after a nice walk and a hearty meal, why not tuck up with some light reading about Holocaust victims being killed in Banja Luka with hammers and knives?
(19) These simple but hearty scones are ideal for any time of day.
(20) The school-based program, Hearty Heart and Friends, involved 15 sessions over five weeks in the third grade classrooms.
Hefty
Definition:
(a.) Moderately heavy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(3) She is now suing the French statesman in a civil court, which could result in a hefty damages award.
(4) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(5) But it had at its disposal a hefty deterrent: forgery was a capital offence between 1697 and 1832.
(6) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
(7) Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
(8) In a hard-hitting report on the countries facing macroeconomic imbalances, such as overvalued housing markets or hefty government debts, the European commission identified a total of 13 member states – including France, the Netherlands and Belgium – which it said should take urgent action to restore the health of their economies.
(9) Nine months later, the details of the scheme are yet to be agreed and Lloyds is determined to escape paying a hefty premium for the government to insure its toxic assets because it believes its losses have peaked.
(10) Pick it up and it is a surprisingly hefty bit of kit.
(11) A ustralians are routinely being told that hefty mining taxes would hinder the country’s largest exports of coal and iron ore.
(12) Oxfam's Lucy Brinicombe is blogging for the Guardian from Cancún, and here's a bit of her first post : There's an air of uncertainty here, of controlled hope mixed with a hefty dose of pragmatism compared with the heady days before last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, where a deadline to secure a fair, safe and legally binding climate deal came – and went.
(13) Averaged projections of the complex resemble those found for the purified PSI reaction centre after reconstitution (Ford, R.C, Hefti, A. and Engel, A.
(14) Linguistic trespassers will be prosecuted with a hefty fine.
(15) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
(16) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.
(17) It was certainly his best moment for the north London club after he missed a large portion of last season through injury and failed to live up to his hefty transfer fee.
(18) In animals kept on a diet with caseine the proportion of the heterohemagglutinines production and of specific antibodies had a reciprocal character, which manifested itself in a hefty depression of the agglutinines biosynthesis to sheep erythrocytes with an accruing titres of antidiphtherial antibodies.
(19) The organisers said the next generation would be more evenly split as a hefty 70% of the "ones to watch" (with just three to five years experience) were women.
(20) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.