mettlesome

  • 101lusty — Synonyms and related words: active, acute, adipose, aggressive, animated, beefy, big bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bouncing, brawny, brisk, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, concentrated, corpulent, distended, doughty, dumpy, dynamic, energetic,… …

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  • 102martial — Synonyms and related words: aggressive, antagonistic, battling, bellicose, belligerent, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody minded, brave, chauvinist, chauvinistic, combative, contentious, courageous, enemy, ferocious, fierce, fighting, full of fight,… …

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  • 103nervous — Synonyms and related words: acid, agitable, agitated, all nerves, all overish, allergic, anaphylactic, anxious, anxioused up, apprehensive, bashful, biting, bothered, concerned, corrosive, cowardly, critical, cutting, delicate, difficult,… …

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  • 104nervy — Synonyms and related words: agitated, all nerves, apprehensive, beefy, biggety, bluff, bold, bouncing, brash, bulldoggish, cheeky, chutzpadik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, discomposed, disquieted, disrespectful, disturbed, doughty, edgy …

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  • 105peppery — Synonyms and related words: alert, beany, brisk, burning, choleric, combustible, cranky, cross, curried, explosive, fiery, hasty, high seasoned, high spirited, hot, hot as pepper, hot tempered, hotheaded, keen, lively, mettlesome, nippy,… …

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  • 106peppy — Synonyms and related words: active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, alert, alive, animate, animated, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright, brisk, bubbly, chipper, dynamic, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic,… …

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  • 107pertinacious — Synonyms and related words: assiduous, balking, balky, bigoted, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulletheaded, bullheaded, case hardened, clamant, clamorous, constant, continuing, crying, demanding, diligent, dogged, dogmatic, draining, enduring,… …

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  • 108plucky — Synonyms and related words: bold, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, mettlesome, nervy, pertinacious, red blooded, resolute, spirited, spiritful, spunky, tenacious, tough, unfearing …

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  • 109prickly — Synonyms and related words: acanaceous, acanthoid, aciculate, aculeate, aculeolate, agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, annoying, atingle, bad tempered, barbed, bothersome, brambly, briery, bristly, cantankerous, complex, complicated, contentious,… …

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  • 110racy — Synonyms and related words: adult, animated, bawdy, blue, brisk, broad, buoyant, burning, coarse, crude, curried, dirty, dynamic, earthy, energetic, exciting, fiery, filthy, flavorful, fresh, full of beans, full of pep, gross, high seasoned, hot …

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