| Main Entry: | hardihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength |
Synonyms: |
audacity, boldness, bravery, confidence, courage, daring, effrontery, fortitude, grit, guts, impudence, insolence, intrepidity, pluck, potency, stoutness, vigor, will |
Antonyms: |
timidity |
| Main Entry: | backbone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of character |
Synonyms: |
courage, determination, firmness, fortitude, grit, guts, hardihood, heart, intestinal fortitude, mettle, moral fiber, nerve, pluck, resolution, resolve, spunk, stamina, steadfastness, tenacity, toughness, will, willpower |
Antonyms: |
ineptness, powerlessness, spinelessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in oneself |
Synonyms: |
aplomb, assurance, backbone, boldness, brashness, certainty, cool, courage, daring, dash, determination, elan, faith in oneself, fearlessness, firmness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart, impudence, intrepidity, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, poise, presumption, reliance, resoluteness, resolution, self-possession, self-reliance, spirit, spunk, sureness, tenacity |
Antonyms: |
uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | courage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boldness, braveness |
Synonyms: |
adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audacity, backbone, bravery, bravura, daring, dash, dauntlessness, determination, endurance, enterprise, fearlessness, firmness, fortitude, gallantry, gameness, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, intrepidity, lion-heartedness, mettle, nerve, pluck, power, prowess, pugnacity, rashness, recklessness, resolution, spirit, spunk, stoutheartedness, temerity, tenacity, valor, venturesomeness, élan |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, faint-heartedness, fear, meekness, timidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | determination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance |
Synonyms: |
assurance, backbone*, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, constancy, conviction, courage, dauntlessness, decision, dedication, doggedness, dogmatism, drive, energy, fearlessness, firm-ness, fortitude, grit, guts*, hardihood, heart*, independence, indomitability, intrepidity, nerve*, obstinacy, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, self-confidence, single-mindedness, spine, spunk*, steadfastness, stiff upper lip, stubbornness, tenacity, valor, willpower |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, doubt, hesitation, irresolution, spinelessness, vacillation |
| Main Entry: | disrespect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disregard, rudeness toward someone |
Synonyms: |
boldness, coarseness, contempt, discourtesy, dishonor, flippancy, hardihood, impertinence, impiety, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, insolentness, irreverence, lack of respect, sacrilege, unmannerliness |
Antonyms: |
civility, esteem, honor, regard, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | effrontery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, boldness |
Synonyms: |
arrogance, assurance, audacity, backtalk, brashness, brass, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah*, crust, disrespect, face, gall, guff, hardihood, impertinence, impudence, incivility, insolence, lip, presumption, rudeness, sass, sauce, self-assurance, self-confidence, shamelessness, smart talk, temerity |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
Antonyms: |
manners, modesty, shame, shyness |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
Synonyms: |
activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | fight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | courage, will to resist |
Synonyms: |
aggression, aggressiveness, attack, backbone, belligerence, boldness, combativeness, gameness, hardihood, mettle, militancy, pluck, pugnacity, resistance, spirit |
| Main Entry: | fortitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of mind; guts |
Synonyms: |
backbone*, boldness, braveness, bravery, constancy, courage, courageousness, dauntlessness, determination, endurance, fearlessness, firmness, grit, gutsiness, hardihood, heart, intrepidity, mettle, moxie, nerve, patience, perseverance, pith, pluck, resoluteness, resolution, spine, spirit, spunk, stamina, starch, staying power, stick-to-itiveness, stomach, stoutheartedness, tenacity, true grit, valiancy, valor, valorousness, what it takes |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, helplessness, weakness |