Hardy
['hɑːdɪ]
['hɑːdɪ] or ['hɑrdi]
Definition
(noun.) English novelist and poet (1840-1928).
(noun.) United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957).
(adj.) having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; 'hardy explorers of northern Canada'; 'proud of her tall stalwart son'; 'stout seamen'; 'sturdy young athletes' .
(adj.) able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions; 'strawberries are hardy and easy to grow'; 'camels are tough and hardy creatures' .
Checker: Nanette--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolu?e; intrepid.
(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
(a.) Strong; firm; compact.
(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.
(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Bold, intrepid, resolute, brave, daring, valiant, heroic, manly, courageous, stout-hearted.[2]. Strong, robust, firm, stout, lusty, rigorous, healthy, hearty, hale, sound.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inured, robust, strong, resolute, stout-hearted, vigorous, intrepid, brave,manly, valiant
ANT:Weak, uninured, delicate, irresolute, enervated, debilitated, tender, fragile
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Definition
adj. daring brave resolute: confident: impudent: able to bear cold exposure or fatigue.—ns. Hard′ihood Hard′iness Hard′iment (arch.).—adv. Hard′ily.
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Examples
- They were hardy fellows in the grand old days of chivalry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were small, hardy animals, of a breed between Galloway and Exmoor, and were known as heath-croppers here. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The woman was young, but of a robust and hardy make, as she need have been to bear the weight of the heavy bundle which was strapped to her back. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Light and fresh air put color into pale cheeks, just as light and air transform sickly, yellowish plants into hardy green ones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- What makes you so venturesome and hardy? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Compeyson spoke hardy, but he was always a coward. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Its untouched mazes of matted jungle had as yet invited no hardy pioneer from the human beasts beyond its frontier. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Is there anybody hardy enough to disbelieve it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He looked at her more than once; not stealthily or humbly, but with a movement of hardy, open observation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Octavian took the hardier west, and consolidated his power; Antony had the more gorgeous east--and Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They had lost their habits of acquiescence, and they were hardier and more capable of desperate action. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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