Courage

Quick meaning: Courage is a noun meaning The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

Meaning

The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

More Meanings

1. The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
2. The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal; moral fortitude.
3. (obsolete) To encourage.

Example Sentences

He plucked up the courage to tell her how he felt.

It takes a lot of courage to be successful in business.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Word Forms

• courages
• couraging
• couraged

Synonyms for courage

Depending on context, synonyms include audacity, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bravehood.

Antonyms for courage

Common opposites include cowardice, cowardliness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bravery, courageousness, fortitude, mettle, brave, courageous.

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