Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by stouthearted courage; brave.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Strong; brave; spirited; valiant; powerful: as, a doughty hero.
Wiktionary
- adj. Brave; bold; courageous; valiant; intrepid; stouthearted; fearless.
- adj. Hardy; strenuous; dauntless; resolute.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable.
Etymologies
- From Middle English doughty, from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ ("good, competent, valiant, doughty, strong"), from Proto-Germanic *duhtiz (“note, usefulness”) + Proto-Germanic *-igaz (suffix), equivalent to dought + -y. Cognate with Scots douchty, douchtie ("bold, valiant"), Dutch duchtig ("severe, strict"), German tüchtig ("efficient, capable, hard, competent, big"), Danish dygtig ("virtuous, proficient"), Swedish duktig ("good, efficient, clever, capable, smart"), Icelandic dygðugur ("virtuous, stable"), Russian дюжий ("sturdy"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English dohtig. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Sir Stuart Wheeler is well-known as a doughty fighter against the great behemoth that is the EU and, in particular, the continued membership of the UK of that deeply corrupt entity.”
“In curt terms the doughty mayor refused to do so, stating there was not in the city of New”
“When did hear King Gunther/how called the doughty man”
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original
“Hrosshild of the Wolfings, for she was well-known as a doughty woman.”
“For all his foibles, Russell was a superb wicketkeeper and a doughty batsman.”
The Guardian: My glove affair with keepers of the lost stumpers' art
“It has been a long road since those doughty 18 women's golfers established what is now the ladies' tour, but all their hard work could be about to pay off.”
“Britain's high earners have a doughty champion in Boris Johnson.”
The Guardian: Tax cuts for high earners make no sense – give them to those on low incomes
“The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years.”
The Guardian: Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
“Of course, it is countries, not people, who are IMF members, so one can have hours of fun imagining a quartet of doughty representatives sat round a table, imposing austerity on each other in return for the adoption of free-market policies, until the end of time.”
The Guardian: The IMF and its truly impossible mission | Deborah Orr
“In the bread robot: future whole wheat sourdough beer herb pizzas, courtesy of my doughty (har har har) shoggoth.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doughty’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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I am : brave
brave, bold, courageous, audacious, doughty, chivalrous, gallant, gutsy, gumption, plucky, spunky, nerve and 12 more...
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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The chaos of "ough" words
Don't even start me on the chaos of English words containing the sequence "ough". Let's create a list to see how many unique pronunciations we get from this sequence of letters.
though, through, enough, thought, slough, rough, dough, bough, cough, ought, doughty, thorough
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1896 more...
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Stalking Darkness
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Stalking Darkness.
inquest, halyard, catamount, occlude, founder, more, grouse, grapple, water butt, antepenultimate, palimpsest, hob and 196 more...
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Vega's Logophile Dictionary
Words I've heard/read in use, words being learnt, words that I want to eventually use in everyday language, words that are high-brow and elitist and scholarly and obscure, words that display the wo...
parsimonious, torpor, recalcitrant, plebeian, vitriol, gumption, augur, aestival, celerity, diaphanous, farrago, nonpareil and 287 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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caspermilktoast's Words
frenetic, farrago, fandango, ensemble, assay, emulsion, taut, winnow, ridonkulous, ginormous, frisson, idee fixe and 181 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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kewpid's Words
moleskine, araldite, dessicate, cellar door, grotesque, fallacy, vendetta, raindrop, panacea, ethereal, hircus, treppenwitz and 446 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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envelopingshadow's Words
denouement, kitsch, acrimonious, macabre, anachronism, atavism, ennui, parse, lugubrious, holism, brusque, commiserate and 164 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu I'm with jennarenn. Sep 9, 2010
milosrdenstvi DUKE. When, to evade Destruction's hand,
To hide they all proceeded,
No soldier in that gallant band
Hid half as well as he did.
He lay concealed throughout the war,
And so preserved his gore, O!
That unaffected,
Undetected,
Well-connected
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
ALL. In every doughty deed, ha, ha!
He always took the lead, ha, ha!
That unaffected,
Undetected,
Well-connected
Warrior,
The Duke of Plaza-Toro!
-W.S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers Aug 20, 2008
ofravens A hundred heralds she sent out
To summon in her sight all doughty men
from "The Queen's Complaint," Sylvia Plath Apr 14, 2008
jennarenn I always want it to rhyme with sought. No reason. Jan 31, 2007
brtom "By heaven, Theodore Purefoy, thou hast done a doughty deed and no botch!"
Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 27, 2007
fbharjo doughty in the sense of brave holding together Dec 27, 2006