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Definition: Hardihood |
HardihoodNoun1. The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hardihood" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: HardihoodSynonyms: boldness (n), daring (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: timidity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace; spunk, guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude, intestinal fortitude; firmness; (stability); heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine; (perseverance) a. resolution; (determination); bulldog courage. |
Insolence | Impudence, assurance, audacity, hardihood, front, face, brass; shamelessness; Adjective: effrontery, hardened front, face of brass. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hardihood |
| English words defined with "hardihood": Harddihead, Hardiment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hardihood": Oyster. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | HardiHood (2002) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Author | Quotation |
William James | Militarism is the great preserver of our ideals of hardihood, and human life with no use for hardihood would be contemptible. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor. P |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | The strong man who in the confidence of sturdy health courts the sternest activities of life and rejoices in the hardihood of constant labor may still have lurking near his vitals the unheeded disease that dooms him to sudden collapse. |
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| "Hardihood" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hardihood" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "hardihood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trimëri (belligerency, bravery, daring, gallantry, hardiness, intrepidity, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valour), paturpësi (backchat, brass, cheek, effrontery, face, gall, impertinence, impudence, indecency, insolence, lewdness, liberty, lubricity, sauce, shamelessness, wantonness), guxim (audacity, boldness, courage, dare, daring, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, forwardness, guts, hardiness, heart, intrepidity, mettle, nerve, pluck, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valorous, valour). (various references) | |
Arabic | قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, stamina, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, violence, virility, virtue), قحة, وقاحة (audacity, boldness, cheek, effrontery, face, flippancy, forwardness, gall, immodesty, impertinence, impolicy, impudence, insolence, lip, manginess, nastiness, naughtiness, nerve, perkiness, pertness, presumption, sauce, sauciness), عزم (design, determination, dourness, grit, intention, mean business, pluck, project, purpose, resoluteness, resource, sand, steadiness), صلابة (callosity, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness), بأس (manhood, pith, pizzazz, puissance, sinew, strength, sturdiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смелост (audacity, boldness, bravery, courage, daring, enterprise, gallantry, hardiness, manliness, pluck, sand, spirit, valor, valour), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, daring, forwardness, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness). (various references) | |
Czech | neohroženost (audacity, intrepidity). (various references) | |
French | hardiesse (hardiness), vigueur, saleté, force, fermeté (hardness), dureté (hardness, harshness). (various references) | |
German | kühnheit (adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, daring, daringness, intrepidity, temerity, wildness). (various references) | |
Greek | αντοχή (durability, endurance, fastness, fortitude, hardiness, refractory life, resistance, resistibility, service life, steeliness, strength, sturdiness, tolerance, toughness), τόλμη (boldness, daring, guts, hardiness, mettle, mettled, nerve, pluck, spunk, temerity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elszántság (audaciousness, audacity, desperation, intrepidity, resolve). (various references) | |
Italian | coraggio (bravery, courage, grit, guts, heart, manliness, mettle, nerve, pluck, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valour), arditezza (boldness, courage, daring), ardimento (boldness, courage). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豪胆 (boldness, courage, valour), 剛胆 (boldness, courage, valour), 剛毅 (firmness of character, fortitude, manliness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うた" (boldness, courage, valour), "うき (bravery, firmness of character, fortitude, imperial outing or visit, instruments of torture, manliness, stoutheartedness, sturdy spirit). (various references) | |
Manx | creoidys (hardness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardihoodhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finicky, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, inept, insanitary, insensibility, Looby, loop, mad, madness, naïve, nincompoop, ninny-hammer, ninth, nitwitted, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, silly, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), descaramento (audacity, brass, cheek, effrontery, sauce), coragem (adventure, audaciousness, audacity, bravery, courage, daring, doughtiness, gallantry, guts, hackle, hardiness, heart attack, intricacy, killed, manfulness, manhood, manliness, nerve, pluck, prowess, resolution, sand, spunk, stoutness), audácia (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, daring, insolence), ânimo (animus, cheer, courage, heart, liveliness, manhood, mind, mood, soul, thumbs up). (various references) | |
Romanian | curaj (boldness, bravery, chins up, come on, courage, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, go, grit, gut, manliness, nerve, pluck, recklessness, spirit, spunk, stomach, stoutness, valor, valour), îndrãznealã (audacity, boldness, courage, daring, face, fearlessness, forwardness, front, impudence, pertness, recklessness, sand, temerity). (various references) | |
Russian | смелость (adventurousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, courage, daring, Dutch courage, grittiness, gumption, hardiness, pecker, pluck, pluckiness, spunk, spunkiness, temerity). (various references) | |
Scottish | cruathas (hardness, rigour), cruadal (hardship). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hrabrost (bravery, courage, doughtiness, fortitude, gallantry, gut, heart, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, sportsmanship, spunk, valor, valour), smelost (boldness, courage, daring, hardiness). (various references) | |
Spanish | robustez (hardiness, lustiness, robustness, ruggedness, soundness, stockiness, strength, sturdiness). (various references) | |
Swedish | djärvhet (audacity, boldness, daring, hardiness). (various references) | |
Turkish | tahammül (endurance, fortitude, hardiness, patience, resistance, sufferance, tolerance), küstahlık (arrogance, assuredness, audaciousness, audacity, back chat, backchat, boldness, brass, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpa, chutzpah, effrontery, flippancy, forwardness, gall, hardiness, impertinence, insolence, lip, pertness, presumption, temerity), dayanıklılık (durability, endurance, fastness, fortitude, grit, hardiness, hardness, indestructibility, lastingness, reliability, resistance, solidity, staying power, strength, sturdiness, substantiality, toughness, wear), cesaret (audacity, bear up, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, daring, doughtiness, enterprise, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, grit, gumption, guts, hardiness, heart, nerve, pecker, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, ticker, valiantness, valor, valour), cüret (audacity, boldness, brass, chutzpa, chutzpah, daring, derring-do, forwardness, front, hardiness, nerve, presumption, temerity, venture), atılganlık (dare devilry, dare deviltry, dash, enterprise, hardiness, venturesomeness), arsızlık (audacity, cheek, cheekiness, crust, effrontery, encroaching vigor, flippancy, front, hardiness, immodesty, importunity, impudence, insolence, pertness, sauce, shamelessness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | сміливість (audacity, bield, courage, daring, gumption, pluck), кремезність, нахабство (assurance, audacity, barefacedness, chat, cheek, contumely, effrontery, insolence, insolency, neck, nerve, sauce). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự táo bạo (daring, derring-do, temerity), sự hỗn xược (cheekiness, contumacy, contumeliousness), sự gan dạ (dauntlessness, doughtiness, gallantry, gameness, gut, hardiness, intestinal fortitude, moxie), sự cản trở (baffle, check, countercherk, delay, encumbrance, holdback, incumbrance, let). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hardihood": hardihoods. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-h-h-i-o-o-r" | |
-3 letters: dhoora, dorado, hairdo, hoorah. | |
-4 letters: aroid, droid, hoard, hodad, horah, radio. | |
-5 letters: arid, dado, dido, dodo, door, hair, hard, hoar, hood, hora, odor, ohia, orad, ordo, raid, road, rood. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-h-h-i-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: hardihoods. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 72 64 69 68 6F 6F 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101000 01101111 01101111 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a r d i h o o d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0072 0064 0069 0068 006F 006F 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)426784707574818170 |
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