Adjective

(er)

Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.

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Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.

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, chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}

Exhibiting strength; sound; healthy; firm; not weak.

Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant.

Adjective

(en adjective)

In the state of a solid; not fluid.

Large, massive.

Lacking holes or hollows; as solid gold, solid chocolate.

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, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

Strong or unyielding.

a solid foundation

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=June 2 , author= Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Belgium , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As in the 1-0 win against Norway in Oslo, this was an England performance built on the foundations of solid defence and tactical discipline.}}

(slang) Excellent, of high quality, or reliable.

That's a solid plan.

Radiohead's on tour! Have you heard their latest album yet? It's quite solid .

I don't think Dave would have done that. He's a solid dude.

Hearty; filling.

a solid meal

Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial; not frivolous or fallacious.

* Milton

the solid purpose of a sincere and virtuous answer

* Dryden

These, wanting wit, affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.

* J. A. Symonds

The genius of the Italians wrought by solid toil what the myth-making imagination of the Germans had projected in a poem.

Sound; not weakly.

a solid constitution of body

(typography) Written as one word, without spaces or hyphens.

American English writes many words as solid that British English hyphenates.

(printing, dated) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.

(US, politics, slang) United; without division; unanimous.

The delegation is solid for a candidate.

Of a single color throughout.

John painted the walls solid white.

He wore a solid shirt with floral pants.

(dated) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic.

A solid''' foot contains 1,728 '''solid inches.