hardy

About 5.86 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
2. adjective Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.

   A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

3. adjective Brave and resolute.
4. adjective Impudent.
5. noun Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
6. noun A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
7. noun A hardy hole.

Similar words

sturdy robust stalwart doughty stout rugged fearless manful manly manlike

Often followed by

and in was to as had enough is plants

Word family

Hardy Hardyesque Norvell Hardy Oliver Hardy Oliver Norvell Hardy Thomas Hardy hardier hardiest hardily hardiness