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Definition of Hardihood
1. Noun. The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger. "The plan required great hardiness of heart"
Generic synonyms: Fearlessness
Specialized synonyms: Adventurousness, Venturesomeness, Daredevilry, Daredeviltry, Audaciousness, Audacity, Temerity, Brazenness, Shamelessness
Attributes: Bold
Derivative terms: Bold, Dare
Antonyms: Timidity
Definition of Hardihood
1. n. Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence.
Definition of Hardihood
1. Noun. Boldness and daring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hardihood
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardihood
Literary usage of Hardihood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"Audacity marks haughtiness and temerity ; effrontery the want of all modesty, a
total shamelessness ; hardihood indicates a firm resolution to meet ..."
2. A Practical View of Christian Education in Its Earliest Stages by Thomas Babington (1819)
"hardihood.—Moderate Habits.—Artificial Hardships.— Moderation favourable to
elevation of Character.— Rules.—Preparation for Prayer.—Self-Examination. ..."
3. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1864)
"BOY hardihood AND ENDURANCE. DO not think anything can be more pleasing to boys
than for them to read of or observe courage, pluck, and endurance j and it ..."
4. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1844)
"The patriots cried out, blustered, but had neither hardihood nor partisans enough
to attack the government.* In this situation, which had lasted ever since ..."
5. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1866)
"It was the Spanish soldiers who patiently endured this extremity of cold, and
the author generally, and generously, admits the valor and hardihood of ..."
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