Meaning

Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes.

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

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

By watching where the snow melted first, I discovered warmer spots that I knew would be possible locations for late-winter bloomers or borderline hardy plants.

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

Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.

Word Forms

• hardier
• hardiest
• hardies

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