Word
mettle, n.
(mettles)
the courage to carry on
<noun.attribute>
freq. cnt.: 14
freq. cnt.: 9
freq. cnt.: 5
heart
mettle
nerve
spunk
sample sentences
"he kept fighting on pure spunk"
"you haven't got the heart for baseball"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
nervy
nerve
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
spunky
spunky
semantic pointers
hypernym
courage, bravery, courageousness, braveness