Hardihood

English

Noun

Hardihood (uncountable)

1. Boldness and daring.
   • 1902, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness:

     Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world.

Adjectives for Hardihood

slipshod; reckless; barbaric; desperate.

Thesaurus

assurance, audacity, birr, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cockiness, disrespect, fortitude, go, grit, guts, hardiness, impertinence, impudence, intrepidity, moxie, nerve, pep, pluck, potency, sand, tuck, vigor

Etymology

hardy

Translations

boldness

Finnish: rohkeus (fi)