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HARDY (hardier, hardiest)

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IPA (US): 

Irregular inflected forms: hardier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, hardiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 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)play

2. English novelist and poet (1840-1928)play

  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 hardshipsplay

2. able to survive under unfavorable weather conditionsplay

3. invulnerable to fear or intimidationplay

  Familiarity information: HARDY used as an adjective is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


HARDY (noun)


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))


HARDY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: hardier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: hardiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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