Courageous
[kə'reɪdʒəs] or [kə'redʒəs]
Definition
(a.) Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.
Typist: Randall
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Fearless (from reflection or a sense of duty), BRAVE, gallant, daring, valorous, chivalrous, valiant, bold, heroic, intrepid, dauntless, resolute, hardy, stout, lion-hearted, with a bold front, UP TO THE SCRATCH.
Checker: Melva
Examples
- Courageous as I am by nature, I absolutely trembled at the idea! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But if they are to be courageous, must they not learn other lessons besides these, and lessons of such a kind as will take away the fear of death? Plato. The Republic.
- And the harmonious soul is both temperate and courageous? Plato. The Republic.
- And your shining courageous Brown Molly for the long? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- And he is to be deemed courageous whose spirit retains in pleasure and in pain the commands of reason about what he ought or ought not to fear? Plato. The Republic.
- It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You have been courageous with them many and many a time, returned my guardian. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Shirley, hearing this courageous affirmation, flashed an arch, searching glance at the speaker from her deep, expressive eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There I gave her into Marian's care--Marian, who had never failed us yet, whose courageous self-control did not fail us now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If the men I have about me shrink from following me, others, more courageous, are to be found. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ay, replied the Templar, the idea of death is easily received by the courageous mind, when the road to it is sudden and open. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him? Plato. The Republic.
- Your wise advice: your courageous firmness--thank heaven it was not too late! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But so courageous a mother, with such a champion in her son, was well fitted to fight a good fight with the world, and to prevail ultimately. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For Jos's former shyness and blundering blushing timidity had given way to a more candid and courageous self-assertion of his worth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Others reveal, upon education, that over and above appetites, they have a generous, outgoing, assertively courageous disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Melva