What does doughty mean?
Doughty means (literary or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous..
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/ˈdaʊti/ · adjective
(literary or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous..
Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams's play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
Use doughty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Doughty means (literary or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous..
Common synonyms include dauntless, fearless, intrepid, resolute.
Possible antonyms include backboneless, base, bitch-ass, boneless.
Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
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