hearty meat sauce

1 2.3

A rich, filling pasta sauce made with a lot of meat, tomatoes and herbs

noun

: salsa de carne sustanciosa

This recipe calls for a hearty meat sauce with plenty of ground beef and tomatoes.

Examples

She made a hearty meat sauce to serve over the spaghetti for dinner.
Nothing beats a plate of pasta topped with a homemade hearty meat sauce.
I love a good hearty meat sauce on my pasta.
The chef prepared a delicious hearty meat sauce for dinner.
Nothing beats a plate of pasta topped with a homemade hearty meat sauce.
She made a hearty meat sauce to serve over the spaghetti for dinner.
This recipe calls for a hearty meat sauce with plenty of ground beef and tomatoes.

Synonyms

spaghetti sauce

vshearty meat sauce

11 1.0

A sauce usually made from tomatoes and herbs to serve with pasta

has much more meat and a richer more filling character

bolognese

vshearty meat sauce

5 3.2

A meat and tomato sauce served with pasta, often with wide noodles

focuses on a dense meat heavy sauce that is especially filling

Bolognese pasta sauce

vshearty meat sauce

2.1

A rich Italian topping for pasta made with ground beef, tomatoes, and vegetables

contains a larger amount of meat and feels more filling

Antonyms

thin

227 5.2

Not strong or convincing, for example an argument

How Meaty

hearty meat sauce

1 2.3

Bolognese pasta sauce

2.1

marinara

17 2.0

Surface Forms

hearty meat sauce singular

hearty meat sauces plural

Morphology

hearty + meat + sauce

The phrase is fully compositional: 'hearty' (satisfying, filling) modifies 'meat sauce' (a sauce containing meat), so the overall meaning of a rich, filling meat-based sauce is directly derivable from the constituents. This adjective+noun+noun construction follows normal English (and cross-linguistically common) composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the component words will understand it.

Etymology

Hearty meat sauce comes from the simple cooking image of a sauce full of meat and rich in taste, because 'hearty' means 'filling' and 'comforting'. So it means a rich, filling pasta sauce.