hearty

What it means

1. Warm and cordial towards another person.

   a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

   3 more examples

   We, full of hearty tears / For our good father's loss

   c. 1603, John Marston, The Malcontent, act IV, scene I

   Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   […] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well.

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

   Synonyms: sincere, real, unfeigned, undissembled, earnest, affectionate, caring, cordial

2. Energetic, active or eager.

   a hearty appetite

   Synonyms: ardent, vigorous, zealous, abuzz, active, agile, airy, alive

3. Cheerful; vivacious.

   a hearty fellow

   Synonyms: ebullient, joyful, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome

In a sentence

a hearty welcome; hearty in supporting the government.

Where it comes from

Equivalent to heart + -y.