Hardyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑɹdi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːdi/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)di

形容詞

hardy (comparative hardier, superlative hardiest)

1. Having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships.

   Synonyms: hearty, robust, rugged, strong

   • 1824, R. W. Dickson, “Hogs or Swine § Swing-tailed Breed or Sort”, in A Complete System of Improved Live Stock and Cattle Management; […] ‎, volume 2, London, →OCLC, page 287:

     It is an useful sort of the smaller kind of hogs, that is hardy in its nature and of considerable weight in proportion to its size.

   • 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian‎:

     Even adding 1mm of thickness to the cardboard, to make it hardier, might use up a substantial forest when multiplied across hundreds of billions of boxes.

2. (botany) Able to survive adverse growing conditions, especially frost.

   Synonyms: hearty, robust, rugged, strong

   Antonym: tender

   Hyponym: winterhardy

   A hardy plant is one that can withstand the extremes of climate, such as frost.

   • 1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses‎, London: Chapman and Hall, page 72:

     The oat is hardier than wheat, and ripens in higher latitudes.

   • 2012, David L. Culp, The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage, Timber Press, page 503:

     By watching where the snow melted first, I discovered warmer spots that I knew would be possible locations for late-winter bloomers or borderline hardy plants.

3. Brave and resolute.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 354:

     But he was not ſo hardy to abide
     That bitter ſtownd, but turning quicke aſide
     His light-foot beaſt, fled faſt away for feare:

4. Impudent.

派生語

関連する語

• foolhardy

名詞

hardy (plural hardies)

1. (usually in the plural) Anything, especially a plant, that is hardy.
   • 2009 June 1, David Carr, “Cast Out, but Still Reporting”, in New York Times‎:

     Across the country, various bands of journalistic hardies — newsroom pros whose services are no longer salient to a crippled and disrupted information economy — have taken matters into their own hands.

2. A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil.
3. hardy hole

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