doughty
Plural: doughties
Adj
- Bold; brave, courageous.
Noun
- A person who is bold or brave.
Adjective
- Brave and persistent; courageous and resolute.
Examples
- It takes a DOUGHTY player to attempt a seven-letter word on a triple-word score with no open vowels.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg.
The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
adventurous, aweless, bad, bold, brass-balled, chivalrous, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, fortitudinous, gallant, gutsy, heroic, intrepid, lionhearted, orped, plucky, resolute, stalwart, stalworth, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
doughty: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddoughty: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
doughty: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary