hardy
Meanings
Plural: hardies
Noun
- United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
- English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
- Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
- A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
- hardy hole
Adjective Satellite
- having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
- "hardy explorers of northern Canada"
- able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
- "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"
- "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
- invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Adj
- Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
- Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
- Brave and resolute.
- Impudent.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”).
Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)).
Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.
Synonyms
audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hearty, intrepid, Oliver Hardy, robust, rugged, stalwart, stout, strong, sturdy, Thomas Hardy, unfearing
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
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