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HARDY (hardier, hardiest)
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, hardiest Dictionary entry overview: What does Hardy mean?
• HARDY (noun)
The noun HARDY has 2 senses:
1. United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
2. English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
Familiarity information: HARDY used as a noun is rare.
• HARDY (adjective)
The adjective HARDY has 3 senses:
1. having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
2. able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
3. invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Familiarity information: HARDY used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hardy; Oliver Hardy
Instance hypernyms:
comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
Holonyms ("Hardy" is a member of...):
Laurel and Hardy (United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English novelist and poet (1840-1928)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hardy; Thomas Hardy
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: hardiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
Synonyms:
hardy; stalwart; stout; sturdy
Context example:
sturdy young athletes
Similar:
robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)
Derivation:
hardiness (the property of being strong and healthy in constitution)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
Context example:
camels are tough and hardy creatures
Similar:
robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Synonyms:
audacious; brave; dauntless; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing
Context example:
intrepid pioneers
Similar:
bold (fearless and daring)
Context examples
The Maltese is a small, hardy companion dog with a thick, heavy coat hanging straight to the ground on each side of a center part line.
(Maltese, NCI Thesaurus)
The Norwegian Elkhound is a hardy, medium-sized Spitz-type dog, sturdy and squarely built with great stamina.
(Norwegian Elkhound, NCI Thesaurus)
The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin and very fair.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Cairn Terrier is a hardy little dog with a fox-like expression.
(Cairn Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)
The Beagle is a hardy, sturdy squarely-built, small hound, with a short coat in tri-color, red and white, orange and white, or lemon and white.
(Beagle, NCI Thesaurus)
The brightness of the hardy carbon monoxide revealed that the planets' atmospheres burn hotter higher up than deeper down.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
The American Water Spaniel is an active, muscular and hardy dog with a broad skull.
(American Water Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)
Ma foi! it is rough soldiering, and a good school for one who would learn to be hardy and war-wise.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What makes you so venturesome and hardy?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The scientists discovered that trees that grow from seeds transported by now-overhunted animals are hardier and healthier.
(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)
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