Usually means: Courage and strength in adversity.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. mettle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mettle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mettle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mettle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mettle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mettle, mettle: Wordnik
  7. mettle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mettle: Wiktionary
  9. mettle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mettle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mettle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mettle, mettle: Dictionary.com
  13. mettle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mettle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mettle (album), Mettle (comics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mettle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mettle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mettle: Rhymezone
  19. Mettle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mettle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mettle: Free Dictionary
  22. mettle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mettle: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Mettle: The Word Detective
  25. mettle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mettle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mettle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. mettle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mettle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mettle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  A quality of courage and endurance.
▸ noun:  Good temperament and character.
▸ adjective:  (Scotland) Spirited, vigorous, stout-hearted.
▸ noun:  Obsolete spelling of metal (“metallic substance”). [(heading) Chemical elements or alloys, and the mines where their ores come from.]

Similar:
heart, spunk, nerve, toughness, courage, fortitude, pith, valour, venturousness, grit, more...

Opposite:
cowardice, fearfulness, timidity

Types:
courage, fortitude, resilience, perseverance, endurance, determination, tenacity, grit, more...

Phrases:
self mettle, on one's mettle, on ones mettle, be on mettle, been on mettle, more...

Adjectives:
true, different, high, same, own, such, undaunted, more, good, real, fine


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Similar:
heart, spunk, nerve, toughness, courage, fortitude, pith, valour, venturousness, grit, more...

Opposite:
cowardice, fearfulness, timidity

Types:
courage, fortitude, resilience, perseverance, endurance, determination, tenacity, grit, more...

Phrases:
self mettle, on one's mettle, on ones mettle, be on mettle, been on mettle, being on mettle, is on mettle, put on their mettle, puts on their mettle, putting on their mettle, to put one one's mettle, more...

Adjectives:
true, different, high, same, own, such, undaunted, more, good, real, fine



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