METTLESOME
met▪tle▪some
adj.
Word Meaning:
willing to face danger
courageous, high-spirited
full of mettle; spirited and plucky
possessing or displaying courage
having a proud and unbroken spirit
Sample Sentences:
Their horses were beasts of burden, not mettlesome chargers.
The wheelers especially were a splendid pair of mettlesome stallions.
Except for a laggard quality in the ballet movements, it moves with a mettlesome step.
It transmutes the mood of a mettlesome farce into the gusto and colors of the musical stage.
Here she mounts some a mettlesome horse and trains him with wonderful skill and boldness.
She felt almost magically healthy, strong and mettlesome, and, further,she began to feel happy.
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Etymology of the English word mettlesome:
the English word mettlesomederived from the English word mettlederived from the English word metalderived from the Old French word metalderived from the Latin word metallum (metal; mine; quarry) using the Obsolete English suffix- some