Meaning of METTLESOME
| Pronunciation: | | 'metlsum
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- [adj] willing to face danger
- [adj] having a proud and unbroken spirit
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| | Synonyms: | | brave, courageous, fearless, game, gamey, gamy, gritty, spirited, spunky |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Met"tle*some\, a.
Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a
mettlesome horse. -- {Met"tle*some*ly}, adv. --
{Met"tle*some*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | active, acute, aggressive, agitable, animated, beany, brisk, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, dynamic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fiery, forceful, forcible, full of pep, game, gamy, go-go, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hearty, highly emotional, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, impetuous, incisive, inflammable, intense, irascible, irritable, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppery, peppy, pertinacious, perturbable, plucky, prickly, red-blooded, resolute, robust, sensitive, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, spiritful, spunky, startlish, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, tenacious, touchy, tough, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, volcanic, zestful, zesty, zippy |
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