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Wholesome vs Hearty - What's the difference?

wholesome | hearty |

As adjectives the difference between wholesome and hearty

is that wholesome is promoting good health and well-being while hearty is pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.

As a noun hearty is

a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

wholesome

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Promoting good health and well-being.
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being.
  • Sound and healthy.
  • Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

    • Synonyms

    * (promoting health) healthy, healthful, salubrious

    Antonyms

    * unwholesome

    Derived terms

    * wholesomely * wholesomeness

    References

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    hearty

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the heart; warm; cordial; bold; zealous; sincere; willing; also, energetic; active; eager.
  • * (rfdate) (w)
    • Full of hearty tears For our good father's loss.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=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.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , 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.

    • Derived terms

    * heartily * heartiness

    Synonyms

    * sincere; real; unfeigned; undissembled; cordial; earnest; warm; zealous; ardent; eager; active; vigorous.

    Noun

    (hearties)
  • a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
  • * 1849 , (Herman Melville), Chapter VI
  • *:“Ay, ay,” muttered the chief mate, as they rolled out of then-boats and swaggered on deck, “it’s your turn now, but it will be mine before long. Yaw about while you may, my hearties , I’ll do the yawing after the anchor’s up.”

    • Anagrams

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