Heartily
adverb
In a very friendly or cheerful way. With enthusiasm and energy.
They welcomed their long-lost friend heartily.
Often appears as...
- laugh heartily
- eat heartily
adverb
Very; to a great degree; deeply.
I heartily agree with your views.
Often appears as...
- agree heartily
- wish heartily
Usage tips
Approving
adverb
In a very friendly or cheerful way. With enthusiasm and energy.
They welcomed their long-lost friend heartily.
Often appears as...
- laugh heartily
- eat heartily
adverb
Very; to a great degree; deeply.
I heartily agree with your views.
Often appears as...
- agree heartily
- wish heartily
Usage tips
Approving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Use 'heartily' to express genuine joy or approval in social interactions.
The audience clapped heartily after the stunning performance.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Bonding
'Heartily' conveys a sense of strong connection when greeting or commending others.
She hugged her teammate heartily for the victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighthearted Contexts
Best used in casual or celebratory contexts, 'heartily' might sound too enthusiastic in formal settings.
He laughed heartily at the joke.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Use 'heartily' to express genuine joy or approval in social interactions.
The audience clapped heartily after the stunning performance.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Bonding
'Heartily' conveys a sense of strong connection when greeting or commending others.
She hugged her teammate heartily for the victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighthearted Contexts
Best used in casual or celebratory contexts, 'heartily' might sound too enthusiastic in formal settings.
He laughed heartily at the joke.
Pro Tip 1/3Positive Emotion
Use 'heartily' to express genuine joy or approval in social interactions.
The audience clapped heartily after the stunning performance.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Bonding
'Heartily' conveys a sense of strong connection when greeting or commending others.
She hugged her teammate heartily for the victory.
Pro Tip 3/3Lighthearted Contexts
Best used in casual or celebratory contexts, 'heartily' might sound too enthusiastic in formal settings.
He laughed heartily at the joke.
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The design genius of...
I'm trying to show you too much, because I want you to really get a broth of ideas and images. This is a house that Charles and Ray designed. My sister is chasing someone else. It's not me. Although I endorse heartily the fact that he stole her diary, it's not me.
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A day in the life of an...
and the other physicians. Xoquauhtli’s team battles heartily, throwing nochtles, marigolds, and balls made of reed and moss. They joke, call their rivals names, and laugh. But then, a girl comes running with a message for Xoquauhtli. Her patient is in labor!
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Vultures - Photographing...
leopards lions bits of elephant black mambas honey badgers pangolins most trafficked animal the world at the moment you could just walk in off the street and buy any in it so I just you know I had to shoot I want people see them at their best which is when they're fighting they're covered in blood and they're heartily repulsive
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The design genius of...
I'm trying to show you too much, because I want you to really get a broth of ideas and images. This is a house that Charles and Ray designed. My sister is chasing someone else. It's not me. Although I endorse heartily the fact that he stole her diary, it's not me.
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A day in the life of an...
and the other physicians. Xoquauhtli’s team battles heartily, throwing nochtles, marigolds, and balls made of reed and moss. They joke, call their rivals names, and laugh. But then, a girl comes running with a message for Xoquauhtli. Her patient is in labor!
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.
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Shweta Menon
Indian Model
I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes of doing a crying scene.
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James K. Polk
American President
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Anne Boleyn
English Royalty
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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George Mason
American Statesman
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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John Milton
English Poet
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its stirring topics of talk, and the culture and exceeding kindness of the Moravian missionaries. Helpfulness was the rule.
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Shweta Menon
Indian Model
I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes of doing a crying scene.
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James K. Polk
American President
I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
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Jonathan Swift
Irish Writer
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
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Anne Boleyn
English Royalty
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian Leader
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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George Mason
American Statesman
I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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John Milton
English Poet
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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