Word Meanings - PLUCKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.

Related words: (words related to PLUCKY)

• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SUBJECTION
  1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government
• SUBJECTIST
  One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist.
• SUBJECTNESS
  Quality of being subject.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SUBJECTLESS
  Having no subject.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.