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Meaning of "mettlesome" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF METTLESOME

mettlesome  [ˈmɛtəlsəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METTLESOME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mettlesome is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METTLESOME


balsam
ˈbɔːlsəm
bunglesome
ˈbʌŋɡəlsəm
chucklesome
ˈtʃʌk əlsəm
cuddlesome
ˈkʌd əlsəm
dolesome
ˈdəʊlsəm
duelsome
ˈdjuːəlsəm
fulsome
ˈfʊlsəm
meddlesome
ˈmɛdəlsəm
nettlesome
ˈnɛtəlsəm
opobalsam
ˌɒpəˈbɔːlsəm
quarrelsome
ˈkwɒrəlsəm
tanglesome
ˈtæŋɡəlsəm
toilsome
ˈtɔɪlsəm
troublesome
ˈtrʌbəlsəm
unwholesome
ʌnˈhəʊlsəm
wailsome
ˈweɪlsəm
wheedlesome
ˈwiːdəlsəm
wholesome
ˈhəʊlsəm
wranglesome
ˈræŋɡəlsəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METTLESOME

metropolis
metropolitan
metropolitan county
metropolitan district
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Police
metropolitanate
metropolitanise
metropolitanism
metropolitanize
metropolitical
metrorrhagia
metrosexual
metrostyle
Metsys
Metternich
mettle
mettled
mettlesomeness
metump

WORDS THAT END LIKE METTLESOME

adventuresome
blithesome
boresome
curvesome
eyesome
gamesome
gleesome
gruesome
jokesome
lifesome
lithesome
lonesome
lovesome
on one´s lonesome
some
threesome
tiresome
unawesome
venturesome
waesome
woesome

Synonyms and antonyms of mettlesome in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «METTLESOME»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mettlesome» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mettlesome

Translation of «mettlesome» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METTLESOME

Find out the translation of mettlesome to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mettlesome from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mettlesome» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

精神抖擞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mettlesome
570 millions of speakers

English

mettlesome
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वीर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شجاع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ретивый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fogoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

তেজস্বী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fougueux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melahirkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

feurig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mettlesome
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기운찬
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mettlesome
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hăng hái
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mettlesome
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटाटेलोमेट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ateşli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mettlesome
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odważny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

запопадливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

binedispune
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ψυχωμένος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vurig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mettlesome
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ildfull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mettlesome

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METTLESOME»

The term «mettlesome» is normally little used and occupies the 130.798 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METTLESOME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mettlesome

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METTLESOME»

Discover the use of mettlesome in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mettlesome and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sir Ashley's Mettlesome Match
Determined to overthrow a notorious smuggling operation, gentleman thief-taker Sir Ashley Saunders will let nothing stand in his way!
Mary Nichols, 2011
2
Historical Taster Collection - Styles, Nichols And Herries ...
To Marry A Matchmaker by Michelle Styles Lady Henrietta Thorndike hides her lonely heart by playing cupid.
Michelle Styles, Mary Nichols, Anne Herries, 2011
3
Crash Course for the GRE: The Last-Minute Guide to Scoring High
C If you don't know what METTLESOME means, go right to the answer choices and start eliminating. Answer choices (A), (B), and (E) contain words that are not related to each other, so eliminate them. Then make sentences for the remaining  ...
Karen Lurie, 2003
4
Balanchine: A Biography
She had long legs and a proud bearing; she was rather like a mettlesome young racehorse. Clearly she had the makings of a fine dancer. Before long she formed a more favorable impression of her mentor, and under his tutelage, she soon ...
Bernard Taper, 1984
5
That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Rivka Solomon, 2010
6
Bucking the Sun: A Novel
Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal's most audacious projects -- the damming of the Missouri River.
Ivan Doig, 2013
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The Monthly Magazine
Courageous mettlesome men and animals have, in that place an arched protuberance, which is wanting in all thole of an opposite character. In mettlesome horses, therefore, the back part of the heid is very broad, because in them the organs ...
Sir Richard Phillips, 1803
8
Biblical Criticism on the First Fourteen Historical Books of ...
on a mettlesome horse ;* because their office required, that they should be well mounted, and they were always galloping across the country in all directions. The noun is not yet become quite obsolete. For the yeomen that attend the king, ...
Samuel Horsley, 1820
9
Voyage Around My Room: Selected Works of Xavier DeMaistre
deMaistre, Voyage Around my Room. an original, and mettlesome autobiography.
Xavier de Maistre, 1994
10
Gone with the Wind
They were all healthy, thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but, withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them. Although born to  ...
Margaret Mitchell, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METTLESOME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mettlesome is used in the context of the following news items.
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Christiane Karg: Scene! review – her bright soprano has a metallic …
In Beethoven's Ah, Perfido, Karg sounds bright and mettlesome as resignation and anger coalesce into resolve, and she is compelling in ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
2
Full circle
So instead of the mettlesome black stallion of my childhood fantasy, I settled for a stocky grade Quarter Horse, red chestnut in color, bombproof in disposition. «EQUUS Magazine, Jun 15»
3
Othello, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, review: Racism still simmers in …
... capable of showing wry amusement at the age difference between himself and Joanna Vanderman's attractively mettlesome Desdemona. «The Independent, Jun 15»
4
MOVIE REVIEW: Man and Superman
... and finally to Granada by Ann Whitefield, his ward, would-be mate and in every way his match in Indira Varma's wittily mettlesome and spikey ... «Independent Online, Jun 15»
5
Southern cattle
... grazed and raised in the jungles under semi-feral conditions so as to ensure their retaining a certain hardihood spirit and mettlesome energy. «The Statesman, Jun 15»
6
Imaginate Reviews: Traverse and other venues, Edinburgh
An absolute nugget of mettlesome theatre-making. So what did happen to Hansel and Gretel after the Witch became toast in her oven? «Herald Scotland, May 15»
7
Guo's Fosun to Buy Ironshore in $1.84 Billion Insurance Deal
Fosun's unit Mettlesome Investment 2 will combine with Ironshore to boost its presence in the insurance business, the Shanghai-based ... «Bloomberg, May 15»
8
F1 in 2015: The A to Z (so far)
T is for Troupe, mettlesome - The quixotic description applied to the McLaren mechanics by their new boss, Eric Boullier, in the team's ... «SkySports, Apr 15»
9
Keith Thurman on Kell Brook fight: “That would be the best fight of …
Thurman has always been a flashy, dogmatic, and mettlesome guy – he has the power and boxing skills to back it up – and a unification fight ... «thaboxingvoice, Apr 15»
10
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Salzburg Easter Festival, review …
In Leoncavallo's opera, Dimitri Platanias brings a smooth baritone and keen dramatic intelligence to Tonio, and Maria Agresta her mettlesome ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mettlesome [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mettlesome>. Apr 2024 ».
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