How do you use the word "hardy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hardy": The English are a hardy people. Hardy young people like mountaineering.

Hardy Meaning

/ˈhɑɹdi/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjHaving rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

adjAble to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.

Sentence Examples

The English are a hardy people.

Hardy young people like mountaineering.

These hardy plants can survive the cold winter weather.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

stout brave sturdy

Antonyms:

frail

CEFR Practice Quiz

Only the ____ plants were able to survive the freezing winter temperatures.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The ____ mountain climbers were able to reach the summit despite the extreme weather conditions.

Word Origin & History

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.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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:

"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:

"By watching where the snow melted first, I discovered warmer spots that I knew would be possible locations for late-winter bloomers or borderline hardy plants." — 2012, David L. Culp, The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, Timber Press, page 503:

"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:

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