hearty meat sauce

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

7 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

3 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

221 5.2

Not strong or convincing, for example an argument

How Meaty

hearty meat sauce

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.