Crossword clues for hardiest
hardiest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hardy \Har"dy\ (h[aum]r"d[y^]), a. [Compar. Hardier (-d[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Hardiest.] [F. hardi, p. p. fr. OF. hardir to make bold; of German origin, cf. OHG. hertan to harden, G. h["a]rten. See Hard, a.]
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Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.
Hap helpeth hardy man alway.
--Chaucer. Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
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Strong; firm; compact.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
--South. Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
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Able to withstand the cold of winter.
Note: Plants which are hardy in Virginia may perish in New England. Half-hardy plants are those which are able to withstand mild winters or moderate frosts.
Wiktionary
a. (en-superlative of: hardy)
WordNet
See hardy
adj. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: stalwart, stout, sturdy]
able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"
n. United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957) [syn: Oliver Hardy]
English novelist and poet (1840-1928) [syn: Thomas Hardy]
Usage examples of "hardiest".
Presence of mind was no good in a situation like this, when his words were followed by a peal of loud laughter which would have confounded the hardiest spirit.
Most of Fo was a vast, fiat waste of rock and scree, with little vegetation but the hardiest, thorny scrubs.
Such weather would have tested the hardiest of mountaineers, but Kaiku was starving, tired, and under-equipped.
He was the halest, hardiest man Kay knew, not to mention the safest driver.
The Baron had learned enough of the pastimes of his adopted country to be aware that this gigantic weapon was something like four times as heavy as any hammer hitherto thrown by the hardiest Caledonian.
Chicano gangs are so tough not even the hardiest newspaper reporters can get in to report the machinations of warfare.
Stone giants were reputably the best rock-throwers in all the realms and a single hit could kill the hardiest of men.
ERB had selected seventeen to twenty-two as the preferred aged for its performers of manual labor since men of that age were the hardiest and made the most efficient workers on worlds not suited to human life.
Pyramids of New England, the eternal monuments of her ancient race, around which cluster the homes of so many of her bravest and hardiest children,--I can never look at them without feeling that, vast and remote and awful as they are, there is a kind of inward heat and muffled throb in their stony cores, that brings them into a vague sort of sympathy with human hearts.
He chose only the hardiest and the best of our ancestors, for only they were worthy of this ultimate accolade.
Although only the hardiest of white folk ventured into the neighborhood after dark, it was not unusual at lunch for all colors to gather there, drawn by the legendary fried chicken, or the Southern-style ribs, simmered until the meat parted from the bone.
The hardiest plants, witch hazel and old ferns, were growing in the ditches.
But if such as this had spilled into the southern mountains, she wondered that even the hardiest or most desperate of outlaws would choose to shelter here.
Lichens are just about the hardiest visible organisms on Earth, but among the least ambitious.
Only the hardiest of people would survive to breed: and the hardiest of plants.