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Intrepid vs Hardy - What's the difference?

intrepid | hardy |

As adjectives the difference between intrepid and hardy

is that intrepid is fearless; bold; brave while hardy is having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships a hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

As a noun hardy is

a blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the (hardy hole).

intrepid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fearless; bold; brave.
  • :* 2000 — Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy
  • :*: Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

    • Derived terms

    * intrepidity * intrepidness * intrepidly

    Related terms

    * trepidation

    See also

    * fearless * unafraid * courageous

    hardy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships. A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

    • Synonyms

    * robust * rugged * strong

    Derived terms

    * cold hardy

    Noun

    (hardies)
  • A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the (hardy hole).
    • (Webster 1913)

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