| Noun | 1. | Hardy - United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957)Laurel and Hardy - United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together comedian, comic - a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts | |
| 2. | Hardy - English novelist and poet (1840-1928)author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | |
| Adj. | 1. | hardy - having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" | |
| 2. | hardy - resolute and without fear | |
| 3. | hardy - able to survive under unfavorable conditions; "strawberries are hardy and easy to grow"; "camels are tough and hardy creatures"rugged - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "a rugged trapper who spent months in the winderness"; "those that survive are stalwart rugged men"; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture" | |