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’.