hardihood

1. 1.

   the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

   “the proposal required great boldness”

   “the plan required great hardiness of heart”

   Synonymsboldnessdaringhardiness

   Broaderfearlessness

   Narroweradventurousnessdaredevilryaudacityshamelessness

Other forms of hardihood

plural

hardihoods·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hardihood

What does hardihood mean?

hardihood means "the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger".

How many syllables are in hardihood?

hardihood has 3 syllables: har-di-hood. The stress falls on "har".

What is another word for hardihood?

Close synonyms include boldness, daring, hardiness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hardihood a common word?

hardihood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.