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couraged

couraged adjective: having a specified form or amount of courage.

Adjective

couraged (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having a specified form or amount of courage.
    • She's the highest-couraged thing we've got in the stables. Her name's Brown Molly, sir; and she'll go till she drops.1859, William Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
    • the wordy warfare of lukewarm, weak-couraged men1925, Andrew Herbert Dakers, Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

Origin of couraged

From courage + -ed.

Questions about couraged

What does couraged mean?
Couraged means having a specified form or amount of courage.
What part of speech is couraged?
Couraged is an adjective.

Words near couraged in the dictionary

  1. cour d'honneur
  2. Courabyra
  3. Couradda
  4. courage
  5. courage of one's convictions
  6. couraged
  7. courageless
  8. couragelessness
  9. courageous
  10. courageously
  11. courageousness

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