HEARTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartily mean? 

• HEARTILY (adverb)
  The adverb HEARTILY has 2 senses:

1. with gusto and without reservation

2. in a hearty manner

  Familiarity information: HEARTILY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With gusto and without reservation

Context example:

the boy threw himself heartily into his work

Pertainym:

hearty (without reservation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a hearty manner

Synonyms:

cordially; heartily; warmly

Context example:

We welcomed her warmly

Pertainym:

hearty (showing warm and heartfelt friendliness)

 Context examples 

She thanked him as heartily as if he had written it himself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Steerforth laughed heartily, and I laughed too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I wonder where that boat was built! (laughing heartily); I would not venture over a horsepond in it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When the twelve princesses heard this they laughed heartily; and the eldest said, “This fellow too might have done a wiser thing than lose his life in this way!”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

She thought this was very kind and thoughtful of the Scarecrow, but she laughed heartily at the awkward way in which the poor creature picked up the nuts.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I'll laugh at you heartily when to-morrow is past; till then I dare not: my prize is not certain.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“I am delighted to hear it,” said I, heartily. “I was afraid it was all up with him.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)