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Webster 1913 Edition

Hardy

Har′dy

(här′dy̆)
,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Hardier
(-dĭ-ẽr)
;
sup
erl.
Hardiest
.]
[F.
hardi
, p. p. fr. OF.
hardir
to make bold; of German origin, cf. OHG.
hertan
to harden, G.
härten
. See
Hard
,
Adj.
]
1.
Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.
Hap helpeth
hardy
man alway.
Chaucer.
2.
Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
3.
Strong; firm; compact.
[A] blast may shake in pieces his
hardy
fabric.
South.
4.
Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance;
as, a
hardy
veteran; a
hardy
mariner.
5.
Able to withstand the cold of winter.
☞ 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.

Har′dy

,
Noun.
A blacksmith’s fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the
hardy hole
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hardy

H`ARDY

, a.
1.
Bold; brave; stout; daring; resolute; intrepid.
Who is hardy enough to encounter contempt?
2.
Strong; firm; compact.
An unwholesome blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric.
3.
Confident; full of assurance; impudent; stubborn to excess.
4.
Inured to fatigue; rendered firm by exercise, as a veteran soldier.

Definition 2024

Hardy

Hardy

See also: hardy

English

Proper noun

Hardy

  1. A common surname​, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
  2. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Short form of Germanic compound names beginning or ending with Hart-, -hard "hard".

Proper noun

Hardy

  1. A male given name.

hardy

hardy

See also: Hardy

English

Adjective

hardy ‎(comparative hardier, superlative hardiest)

  1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • cold hardy

Translations

Noun

hardy ‎(plural hardies)

  1. (chiefly plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
    • 2009 June 1, David Carr, “Cast Out, but Still Reporting”, in New York Times:
      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.
  2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

Old French hardi.

Adjective

hardy m ‎(feminine singular hardye, masculine plural hardys, feminine plural hardyes)

  1. hardy (having rugged physical strength)

Descendants

Etymology

From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi ‎(“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart ‎(“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich ‎(“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig ‎(“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.

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