courage
Meanings
Plural: courages
Noun
- a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
- The quality of being confident, not afraid or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.
- The ability to overcome one's fear, do or live things which one finds frightening.
- The ability to maintain one's will or intent despite either the experience of fear, frailty, or frustration; or the occurrence of adversity, difficulty, defeat or reversal. Moral fortitude.
Verb
- To encourage.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English corage, from Old French corage (French courage), from Vulgar Latin *corāticum, from Latin cor (“heart”). Distantly related to cardiac (“of the heart”), which is from Greek, but from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Displaced Middle English elne, ellen, from Old English ellen (“courage, valor”).
Synonyms
audacity, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bravehood, braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, daring, fearlessness, grit, guts, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, mood, nerve, ovaries, pecker, pluck, spunk, steel, undauntedness, valour
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
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