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US
/ˈhɑɹdi/
]
[ UK /hˈɑːdi/ ]
[ UK /hˈɑːdi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships
stout seamen
hardy explorers of northern Canada
proud of her tall stalwart son
sturdy young athletes -
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
audacious explorers
fearless reporters and photographers
intrepid pioneers -
able to survive under unfavorable weather conditions
camels are tough and hardy creatures
strawberries are hardy and easy to grow
How To Use hardy In A Sentence
- We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
- A half-hardy annual, this variety produces tall stems topped with feathery pure-white flowers. Times, Sunday Times
- Also, that no man be so hardy to crye havock upon peyne that he that is begynner shall be deede therefore: and the remanent that doo the same, or follow, shall lose their horse and harneis ... and his body in prison at the king's will. Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850
- Garden irises are hardy, long-lived perennials that need a minimum of care.
- You argue against yourself, brother, and I find it to be more than passingly foolhardy.
- It would be foolhardy to try to summarise two days of dense legal argument, much of it to do with definitions, legal boundaries and possible implications of certain wordings in the legislation.
- Robert Hardy says he re-arranged his schedule to make sure he could appear in the final episode of Inspector Morse.
- If you're buying bedding plants, remember that most are not fully hardy. Times, Sunday Times
- They whiche unto the warre have given rule, will that the menne be chosen out of temperate countries, to the intente they may have hardines, and prudence, for as muche as the hote countrey, bredes prudente men and not hardy, the colde, hardy, and not prudente. Machiavelli, Volume I
- In the processes generally known as bioleaching, stress-hardy bacteria, which can get all their nutrient requirements from the air and the minerals to be leached, are typically employed to oxidise ores to a more soluble state.