Synonyms of doughty

doughty

adjective

ˈdau̇-tē 

as in valiant

feeling or displaying no fear by temperament

the doughty heroes of old

Synonyms & Similar Words

• valiant
• brave
• heroic
• courageous
• gallant
• fearless
• bold
• intrepid
• manful
• stalwart
• adventurous
• valorous
• stout
• dauntless
• undaunted
• gutsy
• lionhearted
• foolish
• resolute
• stouthearted
• gutty
• impulsive
• hardy
• spirited
• Spartan
• plucky
• reckless
• determined
• daring
• unswerving
• spunky
• undeterred
• unflinching
• greathearted
• undauntable
• game
• gamy
• dashing
• mettlesome
• undismayed
• venturesome
• venturous
• gritty
• adventuresome
• mad
• impetuous
• daredevil
• brazen
• incautious
• heedless
• nutty
• rash
• audacious
• brash
• firm
• lunatic
• thoughtless
• madcap
• overconfident
• hotheaded
• foolhardy
• hasty
• imprudent
• insane
• reassured
• unafraid
• precipitate
• wild
• half-witted
• headlong
• crazy
• encouraged
• overbold
• comforted
• emboldened
• heartened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• yellow
• craven
• cowardly
• coward
• nerveless
• pusillanimous
• dastardly
• timorous
• fearful
• timid
• unheroic
• spiritless
• spineless
• gutless
• ungallant
• fainthearted
• chicken
• mousy
• shy
• nervous
• diffident
• anxious
• scary
• chickenhearted
• skittish
• lily-livered
• careful
• poltroon
• prudent
• apprehensive
• cautious
• milk-livered
• afraid
• poor-spirited
• chicken-livered
• perturbed
• frightened
• uncourageous
• heedful
• weakhearted
• upset
• startled
• agitated
• panicked
• unadventurous
• disturbed
• terrified
• disconcerted
• concerned
• scared
• unnerved
• spooked
• horrified
• worried
• weak
• disquieted
• shocked
• dismayed
• wimpy
• unmanly
• appalled
• panic-stricken
• terrorized

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of doughty

The last leg of the race is a full-on fever dream of impossible race moves spliced together with flashbacks from encounters that have brought our doughty hero to this moment — of encouragement from his friends and family and cynicism from his foes. — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024

The campaign also exposed the vacuum in our political press corps, which tried valiantly to prop up the Florida governor as a doughty maverick who shouldn’t be underestimated. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024

And along with the doughty swarm of small organizations that keep New York’s music scene varied and vibrant, the Perelman Center makes its entrance as an opera presenter, staging one of the season’s two Huang Ruo works. — Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024

In the meantime, Ramaswamy managed to combine the MAGA-style purge of the federal workforce with the doughty libertarian ideal of subjecting the power of the federal government to a thorough evisceration. — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023

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