courageous
adjective/kəˈreɪdʒəs/
/kəˈreɪdʒəs/
- showing courage synonym brave
- a very courageous decision
- I hope people will be courageous enough to speak out against this injustice.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French corageus, from corage, from Latin cor ‘heart’.Definitions on the go
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