adj.
  - warm and friendly.
- strongly felt:![]()  cordial loathing. 
n.
   - Brit. a sweet fruit-flavoured drink.
- N. Amer. another term for liqueur.
- a pleasant-tasting medicine.
Derivative
  
    - cordiality n.
- cordially adv.
 
  Etymology
  ME: from med. L. cordialis, from L. cor, cord- ‘heart’.