Stalwart
['stɔːlwət;'stæl-] or ['stɔlwɚt]
Definition
(adj.) used especially of persons; 'a stalwart knight'; 'a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army' .
(adj.) dependable; 'the stalwart citizens at Lexington'; 'a stalwart supporter of the UN'; 'stout hearts' .
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Definition
(a.) Alt. of Stalworth
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Strong, stout, sinewy, brawny, muscular, athletic, lusty, robust, sturdy, strapping, vigorous, powerful, puissant, able-bodied, Herculean, gigantic, stalworth.[2]. Brave, bold, manly, valiant, valorous, gallant, intrepid, daring, resolute, firm, indomitable, redoubtable.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Powerful, able-bodied, strong, robust, resolute, brave
ANT:Weak, timorous, irresolute
Edited by Glenn
Definition
adj. stout strong sturdy: determined in one's partisanship.—n. a resolute person.—(arch.) Stal′worth.—adv. Stal′wartly.—n. Stal′wartness—(arch.) Stal′worthiness.
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Examples
- The Loyalist movement that took to Nova Scotia so many Americans after the War of Independence carried with it John, the son of this stalwart Continental. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nor did the immaculate young Frenchman appeal to the primal woman in her, as had the stalwart forest god. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the last thirty-five years of the Nineteenth Century there has grown up into the full stature of mechanical majority this stalwart son of electrical lineage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Must I tell how I and the two stalwart companions I brought home from the illuminated park bore the test of intimate acquaintance? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A tribe of stalwart Moors are wading into the sea to carry us ashore on their backs from the small boats. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A tall and stalwart man reposes on a couch there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Weldon