hardy
UK/ˈhɑːdi//ˈhɑɹdi/
hardy adjective: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
Adjective
hardy (comparative hardier, superlative hardiest)
- Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
- It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.1824, R. W. Dickson, “Hogs or Swine § Swing-tailed Breed or Sort”, in A Complete System of Improved Live Stock and Cattle Management; […] , volume 2, London, →OCLC, page 287
- Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
- Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
- A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.
- The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 72
- Antonyms:
- tender
- Brave and resolute.
- But he was not ſo hardy to abide
That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide
His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 354
- But he was not ſo hardy to abide
- Impudent.
Noun
hardy (plural hardies)
- Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
- Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.2009 June 1, David Carr, “Cast Out, but Still Reporting”, in New York Times
- A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
- A hardy hole.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Hardy
Hardy
- A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hardy
Hardy (plural Hardies or Hardys)
- A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person.
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California.
- A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi.
- A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana.
- A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
- A township in Holmes County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia.
- A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada.
- A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia.
hardy meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
hardy in Hindi
- हार्डी
hardy in Marathi
- हार्डी
hardy in Urdu
- بہادر, دلیر, جانباز, جفاکش, کڑا, محنت کش
hardy in Bengali
- কষ্টসহিষ্ণু, শক্তিশালী
More languagesFewer languages
- hardy in Telugu
- హార్డీ
- hardy in Malayalam
- ധീരതയുളള, സാഹസികമായ, കഠിനമായ
- hardy in Kannada
- ಧೈರ್ಯದ, ಕೆಚ್ಚಿನ, ದಿಟ್ಟ, ಗಟ್ಟಿಮನದ
- hardy in Punjabi
- ਹਾਰਡੀ
- hardy in Gujarati
- હાર્ડી
- hardy in Thai
- ทนทาน
Examples of hardy in a sentence
- As at the stok the bere; Snybbith the hardy houndis that ar ken.
- They gave thanks for whatever they deemed worth being thankful for and proceeded to party hardy.
- Would you rather party hardy and die young, or not party at all and live to be an old man?
Synonyms of hardy
Antonyms
Forms of hardy
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | hardier |
| superlative | hardiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | hardies |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hardies |
| plural | Hardys |
Origin of hardy
From Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). Old French hardi is usually regarded as the past participle of hardir ("to harden, be bold, make bold"; compare Occitan ardir, Italian ardire), from Frankish *hardijan; but it may also have come directly from Frankish *hardi, a secondary form of Frankish *hard (compare Old High German harti, herti, secondary forms of Old High German hart (“hard”)); or even yet from Frankish *hardig (compare Middle Low German herdich (“persevering”), Old Danish hærdig, Norwegian herdig, Swedish härdig (“vigorous, courageous”)). Cognate with hard. May have at some point also been surface analysed as hard + -y.
From Old English *Hearda + īeġ (“island, dry land in a marsh”).
* As an English, Scottish, and French surname, from Middle English hardy, hardi, from Old French hardi (“hardy, daring, stout, bold”). * As an Irish surname, via mac giolla deacair (“son of the hard lad”) as a calque of the above. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Hardie.
Words formed from hardy
- Chorlton-cum-Hardy
- Hardyan
- Hardy County
- Hardyesque
- Hardy field
- Hardyism
- Hardy-Littlewood circle method
- Hardy-Ramanujan number
- Hardyston
- Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium
- Hardy-Weinberg law
- Hardy-Weinberg model
- Hardy-Weinberg principle
- Laurel and Hardy
- Ramanujan-Hardy number
- cold hardy
- crack hardy
- hale and hardy
- half-hardy
- hardihead
- hardihood
- hardily
- hardiness
- hardiship
- hardy ageratum
- hardy catalpa
- hardyhead
- hardy kiwi
- hardy orange
- hardy perennial
- nonhardy
- overhardy
- party hardy
- party-hardy
- root-hardy
- root hardy
- semihardy
- unhardy
- winterhardy
- winter-hardy
Phrases with hardy
Words that rhyme with hardy
Questions about hardy
- What does hardy mean?
- Hardy means having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
- What is hardy in Hindi?
- Hardy in Hindi is हार्डी. See Hardy meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is hardy?
- Hardy can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hardy?
- Hardy is pronounced /ˈhɑɹdi/ (US).
Words near hardy in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hardy (page history and authors); Hardy (page history and authors); hardy (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hardy (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hardy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardy (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hardy (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardy (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hardy (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hardy (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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