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hardy
CEFRC1
/ˈhɑɹdi/
adjective · noun
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Strong and able to survive difficult conditions.
- 02
adjective
Extra detailAble to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.
Examples
These hardy plants can survive the cold winter weather.
Hardy young people like mountaineering.
At a glance
Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 4
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsBrave and resolute.
Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.
noun
Extra meaningA blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
More examples
In contextThe English are a hardy people.
A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.
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.
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Origin
adjective
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.