mettlesome adj

1 having a proud and unbroken spirit

2 willing to face danger [syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, spirited, spunky]

English

Adjective

mettlesome

1. Of great mettle; courageous.

active, acute, aggressive, agitable, animated, beany, brisk, bulldoggish, courageous, dauntless, dynamic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fiery, forceful, forcible, full of pep, game, gamy, go-go, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hearty, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, impetuous, incisive, inflammable, intense, irascible, irritable, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, nervous, nervy, peppery, peppy, pertinacious, perturbable, plucky, prickly, red-blooded, resolute, robust, sensitive, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, spiritful, spunky, startlish, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, tenacious, touchy, tough, trenchant, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, volcanic, zestful, zesty, zippy