Courageous vs High-spirited - What's the difference?
courageous | high-spirited | Related terms |
Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
Of an action, that requires courage.
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, "
As adjectives the difference between courageous and high-spirited
is that courageous is of a person, displaying or possessing courage while high-spirited is possessing a bold nature.courageous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- the most courageous man I have ever met
- a courageous deed
Synonyms
* (person ): bold, brave, hardy,valorous * (act ): bold, brave,heroic * See alsohigh-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.