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cordial
Meaning: warm and friendly
cordial in a sentence
How cordial is used in real sentences:
The neighbors exchanged cordial greetings.
The neighbors exchanged cordial greetings.
“For twelve years, Mara and Eli had been cordial neighbors, trading tomatoes and collecting each other's mail.”
— from the passage The Line Between Gardens
Synonyms for cordial
Other words for cordial — friendly, amiable and warm — carry the same meaning.
- friendly
- amiable
- warm
Antonyms of cordial
Words that mean the opposite of cordial:
- cold
- hostile
- unfriendly
Where it comes from
From Latin cor 'heart'
Word parts
- cord/cor — heart
cordial: cord (heart) + -ial (relating to) - -al — turns a noun or root into an adjective meaning related to or characterized by it
cordial: cord- (heart) + -ial (characterized by)
Memory hook
CORDIAL comes from the HEART (cor).