Brave vs High-spirited - What's the difference?
brave | high-spirited | Synonyms |
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:
*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.
(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Making a fine show or display.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
* (1558-1592)
*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
*
*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A Native American warrior.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
* Dryden
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
* Shakespeare
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2
(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
Possessing a bold nature.
* 1816 , , The Black Dwarf , ch. 2:
* 1918 , , "The Princess":
Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.
* 1861 , , Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen , ch. 1:
* 1920 , , "The Offshore Pirate":
* 1950 Sept. 25, "
Brave is a synonym of high-spirited.
As a verb brave
is .As an adjective high-spirited is
possessing a bold nature.brave
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See alsoAntonyms
* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weakNoun
(en noun)- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .
Verb
- These I can brave , but those I can not bear.
- but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.
Derived terms
* bravely * bravery * bravure 1000 English basic words ----high-spirited
English
Adjective
- The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements.
- "She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish."
- Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot.
- Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.
Music: Out of the Corner," Time :
- Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.