hearty :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

hearty

adj. consuming abundantly and with gusto; "a hearty (or healthy) appetite"

wholehearted

adj. without reservation; "hearty support"

cordial

adj. showing warm and heartfelt friendliness; "gave us a cordial reception"; "a hearty welcome"

lusty, full-blooded, red-blooded

adj. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health"

nourishing, satisfying, solid, substantial

adj. providing abundant nourishment; "a hearty meal"; "good solid food"; "ate a substantial breakfast"; "four square meals a day"

fit, healthy

adj. physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"

robust

adj. physically strong

friendly

adj. characteristic of or befitting a friend; "friendly advice"; "a friendly neighborhood"; "the only friendly person here"; "a friendly host and hostess"

hot, ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, heated, torrid, impassioned, perfervid

adj. characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair"

convivial, good-time

adj. occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company; "a convivial atmosphere at the reunion"; "a woman of convivial nature"; "he was a real good-time Charlie"

earnest, sincere, in earnest

adj. characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions; "both sides were deeply in earnest, even passionate"; "an entirely sincere and cruel tyrant"; "a film with a solemn social message"

fit, healthy

adj. physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise"

robust

adj. physically strong

husky, vigorous, strong, beefy, burly, buirdly, strapping

adj. strong and heavily built: "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W. H. Hudson; "`buirdly' is a Scottish term: a buirdly lad for twelve"

sound

adj. financially secure and safe; "sound investments"; "a sound economy"

stable

adj. firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation; "the economy is stable"

blooming, rosy, flushed, rose-cheeked, rosy-cheeked

adj. having the pinkish flush of health

bouncing

adj. vigorously healthy; "a bouncing baby"

firm

adj. possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles"

growing, flourishing, thriving

adj. having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life; "flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"

whole, sound, hale

adj. exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health; "hale and hearty"; "whole in mind and body"; "a whole person again"

lusty, hearty, full-blooded, red-blooded

adj. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health"

ruddy, rubicund, sanguine

adj. inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life; "a ruddy complexion"; "Santa's rubicund cheeks"; "a fresh and sanguine complexion"

well-preserved

adj. used of older persons who are healthy

wholesome

adj. sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face"

total, absolute, unconditioned

adj. without conditions or limitations; "a total ban"

stark

adj. complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"

independent

adj. not contingent

vested

adj. fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"

glowing

adj. highly enthusiastic; "glowing praise"

kindly

adj. pleasant and agreeable; "a kindly climate"; "kindly breeze"