Warm and sincere; friendly: a cordial greeting; cordial relations. See Synonyms at gracious.
Strongly felt; fervent: a cordial abhorrence of waste.
Serving to invigorate; stimulating.
n.
A stimulant; a tonic.
A liqueur.
[Middle English, of the heart, from Medieval Latin cordiālis, from Latin cor, cord-, heart; see kerd- in Indo-European roots.] cor·dial'i·ty (-jāl'ĭ-tē, -jē-āl'-, -dē-āl'-), cor'dial·ness n., cor'dial·ly adv.