METTLE meaning: Courage and strength in adversity

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word Mettle:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

mettle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mettle: Merriam-Webster
mettle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mettle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mettle: Collins English Dictionary
mettle: Vocabulary.com
Mettle, mettle: Wordnik
mettle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mettle: Wiktionary
mettle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mettle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mettle: Infoplease Dictionary
Mettle, mettle: Dictionary.com
mettle: Online Etymology Dictionary
mettle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Mettle (album), Mettle (comics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Mettle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mettle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
mettle: Rhymezone
Mettle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mettle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
mettle: FreeDictionary.org
mettle: Mnemonic Dictionary
Mettle: The Word Detective
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mettle: Legal dictionary

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mettle: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

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mettle: Idioms

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mettle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
mettle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mettle)

▸ noun:  A quality of courage and endurance.
▸ noun:  Good temperament and character.
▸ adjective:  (Scotland) Spirited, vigorous, stout-hearted.
▸ noun:  Obsolete spelling of metal (“metallic substance”). [(heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.]

Similar:

heart, spunk, nerve, toughness, courage, fortitude, pith, valour, venturousness, grit, more...

Opposite:

cowardice, fearfulness, timidity

Types:

courage, fortitude, resilience, perseverance, endurance, determination, tenacity, grit, more...

Phrases:

self mettle, on one's mettle, on ones mettle, be on mettle, been on mettle, more...

Adjectives:

true, different, high, same, own, such, undaunted, more, good, real, fine

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, ruby, garnet, burgundy, more...