Mettlesome

Definition: Mettlesome

Mettlesome

Adjective

1. Having a proud and unbroken spirit.

2. Willing to face danger.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mettlesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Mettlesome

Courage

Adjective: courageous, brave; valiant, valorous; gallant, intrepid; spirited, spiritful; high-spirited, high-mettled; mettlesome, plucky; manly, manful; resolute; stout,.stout-hearted; iron-hearted, lion-hearted; heart of oak; Penthesilean.

Excitability

Startlish, mettlesome, high-mettled, skittish.

Sensibility

Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious.

Crosswords: Mettlesome

Books

• Richard Shuttleworth : his thirty one mettlesome years (reference)

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At the moment when you read this, five mettlesome horses will be bearing us back to our papas and mammas

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Albanian

plot zjarr (heatedly, mettled), plot vrull (high-spirited, mettled, peppy, zestful, zippy), guximtar (audacious, bold, bold man, courageous, courageous man, dare devil, daring, foolhardy, gallant, game, gritty, hardy man, manful, mettled, plucky, reckless, spunky, stout, stouthearted, temerarious, tossy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متقد نشاطا, ‏شجاع (brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, hardy, hero, manful, martial, plucky, red blooded, spirited, stalwart, stout, tiger, undaunted, valiant, valorous). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усърден (assiduous, diligent, hard, industrious, mettled, painstaking, patient, sedulous, strenuous, studious, thorough, warm), смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant, venturesome), ревностен (ardent, eager, earnest, fanatic, fanatical, fervent, intense, jealous, keen, mettled, openmouthed, painstaking, violent, zealous), неустрашим (fearless, intrepid, mettled, temerarious, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references)

Czech

odvážný (audacious, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, perilous, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart, venturesome). (various references)

French

fougueux, ardent. (various references)

German

feurig (ardent, fervently, fierily, fiery, glowing, igneous, mettled, racy, spirited, spiritedly, spunky, vigorous). (various references)

Greek 

γενναίοσ (brave, courageous, gallant, generous, manful), γενναίος (bold, brave, courageous, valiant), εύψυχοσ (soulful), θαρραλέος (bold, courageous, stout), ψυχωμένοσ (spunky). (various references)

Hungarian

tüzes (ardent, fierce, fiery, heated, igneous, impetuous, mettled, temperament, to feel one's oats), heves (acute, boisterous, explosive, fervent, fervid, fulmination, heady, heated, hot, hot-tempered, impetuous, intense, keen, mettled, passionate, poignant, rampageous, sanguine, short tempered, snoring, to run the gauntlet of adverse criticism, vehement, warm). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettlesomemay.(various references)

Portuguese

vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, alive, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy), impetuoso (dashing, fiery, forcible, furious, headlong, heady, hot, hot-brained, hot-headed, hot-tempered, impetuous, lawless, licentious, mettled, passionate, riotous, slapdash, tearing, tempestuous, vehement, violent, volcanic), fogoso (ardent, burning, dashing, fiery, frisky, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hot-headed, hotspur, hot-tempered, impetuous, mettled, proud, proud-spirited, unruly), enérgico (alive, deedful, devil, drastic, energetic, expressive, forceful, forcible, intense, live, lusty, mettled, peppy, pithy, potent, punchy, pushing, sinewy, spunky, strenuous, strong, trenchant, two-fisted, vibrant, vigorous, virile), corajoso (adventurous, bold, brave, chivalrous, cool, courageous, fearless, gallant, game, gamy, go-ahead, hardy, high-hearted, high-spirited, intrepid, lion-hearted, manful, mettled, plucky, resolute, soldierly, spirited, spunky, stout, unshrinking, valiant, venturous). (various references)

Romanian

vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, lively, living, mercurial, merry, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), bine dispus (cheerful, crank, debonair, full of beans, full-blooded, good humoured, good-humored, in good spirits, jolly, merry, tails up, well disposed), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, lively, mercurial, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding). (various references)

Russian 

смелый (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dare devil, game, gritty, manful, mettled, plucky, spirited, spunky, stouthearted, stout-hearted, venturesome, ventursome). (various references)

Scottish

smiorail, aigeantach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odvažan (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, hardy, mettled), hrabar (adventurous, brave, courageous, doughty, ironside, lion-hearted, mettled, plucky, red blooded, sporty, spunky, stouthearted, undaunted, valorous), žestok (bitter, blistering, boisterous, intense, mettled, racy, right-down, rough and tumble, severe, uncanny, vehement, vicious, violent, white hot). (various references)

Spanish

celoso (jealous, mettled, zealous), brioso (high-spirited, lively, proud, zestful), animoso (brave, game, gritty, high-spirited, intrepid, mettled, spirited, zestful). (various references)

Swedish

morsk (bold, brave, cock-a-hoop, Doughty, perky), livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, lively, mercurial, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile). (various references)

Turkish

canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), ateşli (aglow, ardent, armed, burning, eager, enthusiastic, febrile, fervent, fevered, feverish, fierce, fiery, flamboyant, flaming, gut, hectic, het up, hot, impassioned, in a glow, mettled, passionate, perfervid, racy, red-hot, skittish, sulphurous, sultry, torrid, vehement, zealous), atak (attack, confident, dapper, daring, dashing, gutsy, heady, mettled, militant, push, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous). (various references)

Ukrainian

сміливий (amazonian, audacious, cant, courageous, daring, game, gamy, mettled, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky, venturesome), гарячий (ardent, broiling, earnest, fervent, hot, hot tempered, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, mettled, ornery, scalding, torrid, warm), завзятий (audacious, daring, fervent, mettled, pertinacious, proud, stubborn, unsparing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sôi nổi (ardent, ardently, bean, bean-fed, effervescent, feverish, fiery, hectic, hot-blooded, hot-spririted, keen, mettled, passionate, rousing, vehement), nhiệt tình (animation, burning, devoted, devotedly, devout, fire, impassionedness, mettle, mettled, spirit, verve, warm), hăng hái (ardently, bean-fed, corky, dashing, enthusiastic, hot-spririted, mettled, peppy, strong, thoroughbred), dũng cảm đầy nhuệ khí (mettled), đầy khí thế (mettled). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: omelettes.

-2 letters: omelette.

-3 letters: mettles, mottles, omelets, teleost, telomes.

-4 letters: emmets, emotes, esteem, lottes, melees, mestee, mettle, molest, motels, motets, mottes, mottle, omelet, sememe, settee, settle, telome, testee, totems.

-5 letters: emmet, emote, leets, lotte, meets, melee, melts, memes, memos, metes, moles, molts, momes, moste, motel, motes, motet, motte, motts, sleet, smelt, smolt, smote, steel, stele.

+2 letters: telecommutes.

+3 letters: telecommuters.

+4 letters: thermoelements.