Definition of STURDY

sturdy

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
    • "sturdy young athletes"
  • substantially made or constructed
    • "sturdy steel shelves"
    • "sturdy canvas"

Adjective

  • not making concessions

Adj

  • Of firm build; stiff; stout; strong.
  • Solid in structure or person.
  • Foolishly obstinate or resolute; stubborn.
  • Resolute, in a good sense; or firm, unyielding quality.

Noun

  • A disease caused by a coenurus infestation in the brain of an animal, especially a sheep or canid; coenurosis.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English sturdy, stourdy, stordy (“bold, valiant, strong, stern, fierce, rebellious”) (perhaps influenced by Middle English sture, stoure, stor (“strong, robust, harsh, stern, violent, fierce, sturdy”); see English stour), from Old French estourdi (“dazed”), form of estourdir, originally “to daze, to make tipsy (almost drunk)” (Modern French étourdir (“to daze, to make tipsy”)), from Vulgar Latin *exturdire. Latin etymology is unclear – presumably it is ex- + turdus (“thrush (bird)”), but how this should mean “daze” is unclear. A speculative theory is that thrushes eat leftover winery grapes and thus became drunk, but this meets with objections.
Disease in cows and sheep is by extension of sense of “daze”, while sense of “strongly built” is of late 14th century, and relationship to earlier sense is less clear, perhaps from sense of a firm strike (causing a daze) or a strong, violent person.

Antonyms

compromising

Scrabble Score: 10

sturdy is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
sturdy is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sturdy is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

sturdy is a valid Words With Friends word