doughty
steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant.
Origin of doughty
1Other words for doughty
Other words from doughty
- dough·ti·ly, adverb
- dough·ti·ness, noun
- un·dough·ty, adjective
Words Nearby doughty
Other definitions for Doughty (2 of 2)
Charles Mon·ta·gu [mon-tuh-gyoo], /ˈmɒn təˌgyu/, 1843–1926, English traveler and writer.
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How to use doughty in a sentence
He is also the fifth player from the 2008 NHL draft class to hit that milestone, joining Steven Stamkos, Erik Karlsson, Jordan Eberle and Drew doughty.
This time, Capitals build a big lead and keep a grip on it, beating Flyers, 5-3 | Samantha Pell | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostTrue to form, doughty had spent the previous four days driving around Maui.
And, most likely, neither one of ours is quite like doughty’s.
doughty co-owns and operates Clarity Funerals & Cremation in Los Angeles.
Today on the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we take doughty back to her roots, with her 2014 debut memoir, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
As doughty explains, no one really knows what the rules are when it comes to death.
Caitlin doughty is certainly not the first person to publish a book about the funeral industry.
I believe an archetype was born in those years, that of the doughty British woman—proud, opinionated, but with a heart of gold.
But doughty-Wylie was married, and as long as the war occupied them both neither could see a way out.
She fell in love with Colonel Charles doughty-Wylie, a soldier with a record of derring-do with appropriate movie star looks.
At the mention of the doughty Scot I pounded the floor with my crutch and repeated "Dug—dug—dug."
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydThe twain of them were doughty men, and noble in England, and both were very sage and well-beloved by the King.
The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) | Snorri SturlusonIt was a dismal hour for the proud court of the doughty governor.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska | Charles Warren StoddardIf you only knew of all Galeazzo's doughty deeds on the journey!
The Child of Pleasure | Gabriele D'AnnunzioThe men refused this wager of battle, but fortune favored this doughty little cavalier, for presently a great storm arose.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend Brady
British Dictionary definitions for doughty (1 of 2)
/ (ˈdaʊtɪ) /
hardy; resolute
Origin of doughty
1Derived forms of doughty
- doughtily, adverb
- doughtiness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for Doughty (2 of 2)
/ (ˈdaʊtɪ) /
Charles Montagu. 1843–1926, English writer and traveller; author of Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888)
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