Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of mettle; spirited and plucky. synonym: brave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of mettle or spirit; courageous; fiery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of great
mettle ;courageous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective willing to face danger
- adjective having a proud and unbroken spirit
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Examples
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The primeval versions of Alone in the Dark were critically panned, and with beatific reason: the mettlesome was a preventative mess.
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At the rattling first of the mettlesome World of Warcraft, players have the pick of choosing a case supported on digit of the digit field factions, which shack in Warcraft.
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WOW Accounts is the biggest, best, and most poems MMORPG mettlesome to date.
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Media figures seemingly unmoored from the moderating influence of superego, revealing cheerily oblivious chauvinism (Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann) and impressively mettlesome candor about gender bias (Couric, Campbell Brown).
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It is a super sort whichever way you countenance at it, and resistless to actualize how some grouping is populating the globe of Azeroth where the mettlesome of Warcraft takes place.
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Media figures seemingly unmoored from the moderating influence of superego, revealing cheerily oblivious chauvinism (Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann) and impressively mettlesome candor about gender bias (Couric, Campbell Brown).
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jwjarvis commented on the word mettlesome
The great Tudor queen had known how to deal with mettlesome men
October 2, 2010