courageous

[ kuh-rey-juh s ]

/ kəˈreɪ dʒəs /

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adjective

possessing or characterized by courage; brave: a courageous speech against the dictator.

Origin of courageous

1250–1300; Middle English corageous < Anglo-French curajous, Old French corageus, equivalent to corage courage + -eus -eous

synonym study for courageous

See brave.

OTHER WORDS FROM courageous

cou·ra·geous·ly, adverb cou·ra·geous·ness, noun un·cou·ra·geous, adjective un·cou·ra·geous·ly, adverb

un·cou·ra·geous·ness, noun

Words nearby courageous

couponer, couponing, coupé, courage, courage of one's convictions, have the, courageous, courant, courante, courantyne, courbaril, courbet

Example sentences from the Web for courageously

Begich has courageously talked of eliminating the payroll tax cap of around $115,000.

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Roger and his wife, Chaz, courageously opened up their private lives to our filming as they never have before.

‘Life Itself’: An Open Letter From Filmmaker Steve James About His Roger Ebert Documentary |Steve James |December 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Sudanese civil-society groups are courageously pressing forward with an agenda for real change.

Is Sudan’s Uprising the Beginning of the End of Omar al Bashir? |John Prendergast |September 28, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Families experienced these losses as deaths, but even with these losses, they courageously moved forward with new referrals.

Russia’s Adoption Ban Is Cruel and Vindictive to All |Dr. Jane Aronson |December 29, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

A courageously outspoken 14-year-old is fighting for her life in Pakistan tonight.

Pakistan: The Schoolgirl the Taliban Tried to Kill |Sami Yousafzai |October 9, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
In many places the leadership and the membership of the church have courageously pioneered the way in times of crisis and change.

Herein is Love |Reuel L. Howe
Between times, Favre had courageously studied the principal bases of such sciences as were to be useful to him.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 |Various
Accordingly, he took up his weapons, and infused courage into those that were with him to act as courageously as himself.

The Antiquities of the Jews |Flavius Josephus
“The brutes often prove poltroons, if courageously met, and so these have shown themselves,” exclaimed Denis.

Hendricks the Hunter |W.H.G. Kingston
I have decided that it will be better for you to deal with him yourself––courageously.

The Eye of Dread |Payne Erskine

British Dictionary definitions for courageously

courageous

/ (kəˈreɪdʒəs) /

adjective

possessing or expressing courage

Derived forms of courageous

courageously, adverb courageousness, noun

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adjective

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courageous

adjective

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