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METTLESOMENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mettlesomeness mean?
• METTLESOMENESS (noun)
The noun METTLESOMENESS has 1 sense:
1. courageous high-spiritedness
Familiarity information: METTLESOMENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Courageous high-spiritedness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mettlesomeness" is a kind of...):
high-spiritedness (exuberant liveliness)
Derivation:
mettlesome (willing to face danger)
mettlesome (having a proud and unbroken spirit)
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