Word Meanings - COURAGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold. With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate. Stow. Syn. -- Gallant; brave; bold; daring; valiant; valorous; heroic; intrepid;

Additional info about word: COURAGEOUS

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold. With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate. Stow. Syn. -- Gallant; brave; bold; daring; valiant; valorous; heroic; intrepid; fearless; hardy; stout; adventurous; enterprising. See Gallant.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COURAGEOUS)

• Adventurous
• Bold
• brave
• daring
• enterprising
• courageous
• gallant
• fearless
• venturesome
• rash
• chivalrous
• hazardous
• Chivalrous
• Courageous
• generous
• knightly
• heroic
• adventurous
• valiant
• spirited
• handsome
• high-minded
• Daring
• dashing
• bold
• dauntless
• foolhardy
• intrepid
• valorous
• Gallant
• Brave
• courteous
• splendid
• showy
• gay
• Heroic
• undaunted
• romantic

Related words: (words related to COURAGEOUS)

• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• SPLENDIDIOUS
  Splendid.
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• HIGH-MINDEDNESS
  The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• UNDAUNTABLE
  Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• DASHER
  1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• CONGENEROUS
  Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.