hearty vs hardy

hearty

Definitions

adjective

  1. showing warm and heartfelt friendliness
  2. providing abundant nourishment
  3. without reservation
  4. endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health
  5. consuming abundantly and with gusto

Examples

Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's

That demands strong swimming skills and hearty lungs besides.

Those with a hearty appetite for the whiz of bullets, the bang of artillery, dying declarations, famous last words, and eyewitness accounts of the face of battle will not be disappointed.

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hardy

Definitions

adjective

  1. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
  2. invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  3. able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions

Examples

We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.

A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers.

Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at the king's will.

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