The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
mettlesomeness — noun courageous high spiritedness • Derivationally related forms: ↑mettlesome • Hypernyms: ↑high spiritedness * * * mettˈlesomeness noun • • • Main Entry: ↑mettle … Useful english dictionary
mettlesome — adjective 1. having a proud and unbroken spirit • Similar to: ↑spirited • Derivationally related forms: ↑mettlesomeness 2. willing to face danger • Syn: ↑game, ↑gamy, ↑gamey, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Jousting — is a sport played by armored combatants mounted on horses. It consists of competition between two mounted knights using a variety of weapons, usually in sets of three per weapon (such as tilting with a lance, blows with the battle axe, strokes… … Wikipedia
backbone — Synonyms and related words: advocate, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, backing, bandeau, bearer, bottom, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buttress, cane, carrier, cervix, chutzpah, corset, courage, crook, crutch, determination,… … Moby Thesaurus
bottom — Synonyms and related words: argosy, arse, ass, at bottom, backbone, backside, bark, basal, base, basement, basic, basically, basin, basis, baygall, bed, bedrock, behind, belly, best, boat, bog, bottom glade, bottomland, bottommost, bottoms,… … Moby Thesaurus
courage — Synonyms and related words: arrogance, assurance, assuredness, audacity, backbone, balls, belief, boldness, bottle, bottom, bravery, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, daring, dauntlessness, determination, doughtiness … Moby Thesaurus
fortitude — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, backbone, boldness, bottom, bravery, bulldog courage, cardinal virtues, charity, constancy, courage, courageousness, dauntlessness, decisiveness, determination, endurance, energy, faith, fearlessness,… … Moby Thesaurus
grit — Synonyms and related words: air pollution, attritus, backbone, bottle, bottom, bran, bravery, breccia, chafe, chutzpah, cosmic dust, courage, courageousness, crumb, crumble, dauntlessness, debris, determination, detritus, doughtiness, dust, dust… … Moby Thesaurus
guts — Synonyms and related words: abdomen, anus, appendix, backbone, being, bite, bitingness, blind gut, bones, bosom, bottom, bowels, brain, breast, briskness, cecum, census, chutzpah, colon, composition, constituents, content, contents, courage,… … Moby Thesaurus
hardiness — Synonyms and related words: assurance, audacity, brashness, bulldog courage, cohesiveness, decisiveness, durability, endurance, energy, force, fortitude, gameness, gaminess, grittiness, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardihood, hardness, heartiness,… … Moby Thesaurus
