mettlesome
If you're spirited and brave, you're mettlesome. It takes a mettlesome person to hike the Appalachian Trail all alone.
The adjective mettlesome is a great way to describe someone who's full of pride or courage — although it's also an old-fashioned, somewhat literary way to do it. Many classic children's books feature mettlesome main characters, like Huckleberry Finn and Ann of Green Gables. Though it sounds a bit like the nosy word meddlesome, mettlesome is rooted instead in mettle, "the stuff of which someone is made."
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having a proud and unbroken spiritsynonyms:spiriteddisplaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
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willing to face danger
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Vocabulary lists containing mettlesome
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