COURAGEOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does courageous mean? 

• COURAGEOUS (adjective)
  The adjective COURAGEOUS has 1 sense:

1. possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

  Familiarity information: COURAGEOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURAGEOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

Synonyms:

brave; courageous

Context example:

set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory

Similar:

desperate; heroic (showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort)

gallant (unflinching in battle or action)

game; gamey; gamy; gritty; mettlesome; spirited; spunky (willing to face danger)

lionhearted (extraordinarily courageous)

stalwart; stouthearted (used especially of persons)

undaunted (resolutely courageous)

valiant; valorous (having or showing valor)

Also:

adventuresome; adventurous (willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises)

fearless; unafraid (oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them)

bold (fearless and daring)

resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)

Attribute:

braveness; bravery; courage; courageousness (a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear)

Derivation:

courage; courageousness (a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear)

 Context examples 

Mars will make you courageous, energetic, focused, and determined.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"I have lost much flesh since I lived there, and now I am anxious for a chance to show the other beasts how courageous I have grown."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I am more than brave. I am courageous.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic: cease to mistrust yourself—I can trust you unreservedly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I may have said somewhere in this chronicle that I am too imaginative to be a really courageous man, but that I have an overpowering fear of seeming afraid.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When little Em'ly grew more courageous, and talked (but still bashfully) across the fire to me, of our old wanderings upon the beach, to pick up shells and pebbles; and when I asked her if she recollected how I used to be devoted to her; and when we both laughed and reddened, casting these looks back on the pleasant old times, so unreal to look at now; he was silent and attentive, and observed us thoughtfully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

How the trampers might have behaved, had the young ladies been more courageous, must be doubtful; but such an invitation for attack could not be resisted; and Harriet was soon assailed by half a dozen children, headed by a stout woman and a great boy, all clamorous, and impertinent in look, though not absolutely in word.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

You will be energized, courageous, and determined, and you’re not about to let anyone tell you no.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Do not say, I am too afraid to do this or that, so I will not do anything. (That is a decision in itself, anyway.) Instead, take the courageous route, plan carefully, and say, I must do this now, for I cannot allow this situation to go on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)