Hardy

Quick meaning: Hardy is an adjective meaning Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

Meaning

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

More Meanings

1. (botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
2. Brave and resolute.
3. Impudent.
4. (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
5. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
6. A hardy hole.

Example Sentences

The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.

A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

But he was not ſo hardy to abide That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:

It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.

Word Forms

• hardier
• hardiest
• hardies

Synonyms for hardy

Depending on context, synonyms include hearty, robust, rugged, strong, stout, manlike.

Antonyms for hardy

Common opposites include tender.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sturdy, robust, stalwart, doughty, stout, rugged.

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