METTLESOMENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Courageous high-spiritedness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mettlesomeness" is a kind of...):

high-spiritedness (exuberant liveliness)

Derivation:

mettlesome (willing to face danger)

mettlesome (having a proud and unbroken spirit)

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