heartily

English

Etymology

From Middle English hertely, herteliche, heorteliche, from Old English ġeheortlīċe (“whole-heartedly, vigorously”), equivalent to hearty +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːtɪli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹtɪli/
• Hyphenation: heart‧i‧ly

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Adverb

heartily (comparative more heartily, superlative most heartily)

1. In a hearty manner.

   eat heartily

   greet someone heartily

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 166:

     Sometimes he laughed heartily as if he heard some capital joke; by degrees this lessened, and he spoke rapidly, but in very low tones.

Synonyms

• with a will
• agood

Derived terms

• hale and heartily

Translations

in a hearty manner

• Bulgarian: искрено (bg) (iskreno), сърдечно (bg) (sǎrdečno)
• French: chaleureusement (fr)
• Georgian: გულითადად (gulitadad)
• German: herzlich (de)
• Hungarian: szívesen (hu), szívélyesen (hu)
• Italian: caldamente (it), sentitamente (it), giovialmente (it)
• Latin: frāternē
• Norman: tchoeuthuement
• Portuguese: cordialmente
• Russian: серде́чно (ru) (serdéčno)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ср̏да̄чно

  Roman: sȑdāčno (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wutšobnje

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