gallantry

The word “gallantry” has 3 syllables: gal-lan-try

It's pronounced as /ˈɡæləntri/


What is synonym and antonym for gallantry?

In the thesaurus, “gallantry” has 69 synonyms and 28 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for gallantry along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gallantry

  • address
  • attentiveness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • bravery
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cojones
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • courteousness
  • courtesy
  • daring
  • daringness
  • dauntlessness
  • deference
  • derring-do
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • duty
  • effrontery
  • elegance
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fortitude
  • gall
  • graciousness
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • heroism
  • honor
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nobility
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • poise
  • politeness
  • prowess
  • resolution
  • reverence
  • savoir-faire
  • spirit
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • stomach
  • stoutness
  • tact
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • urbanity
  • valiance
  • valor
  • virtue

Antonyms for gallantry

  • cold feet
  • cowardice
  • cowardliness
  • cravenness
  • dastardliness
  • dishonor
  • disregard
  • disrespect
  • faintheartedness
  • fear
  • fearfulness
  • feebleness
  • hesitation
  • impoliteness
  • impotence
  • indecision
  • indecisiveness
  • ineffectualness
  • irresolution
  • modesty
  • mousiness
  • poltroonery
  • rudeness
  • softness
  • spinelessness
  • timidity
  • timorousness
  • weakness

Meanings of gallantry

  • noun
    1. Courage.
    2. Chivalrous courtliness, especially towards women.
    3. An instance of gallant behaviour or speech.

Example Sentences

  • He displayed gallantry on the battlefield, earning the respect of his comrades.
  • The firefighter's gallantry saved lives during the intense blaze.
  • In the face of danger, her gallantry shone through as she protected others.
  • The knight's acts of gallantry were celebrated throughout the kingdom.
  • Despite the challenges, the soldier continued to exhibit remarkable gallantry.

On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gallantry, such as: address, attentiveness, audacity, backbone, boldness, bottle, bravery.

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Related Words

backbone

  • audacity
  • back
  • base
  • basis
  • boldness
  • brass
  • bravery
  • cheek
  • chine
  • chutzpa
  • chutzpah
  • constancy
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daring
  • dauntlessness
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • firmness
  • forbearance
  • fortitude
  • foundation
  • gall
  • gallantry
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • grittiness
  • guts
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • hutzpa
  • hutzpah
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • moral fiber
  • nerve
  • nerviness
  • pluck
  • purposefulness
  • resoluteness
  • resolution
  • resolve
  • spinal column
  • spinal cord
  • spine
  • spirit
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • steadfastness
  • stoutness
  • sufferance
  • support
  • temerity
  • tenacity
  • tolerance
  • toughness
  • valor
  • vertebra
  • vertebrae
  • vertebral column
  • will
  • willpower

cajolery

  • a line
  • acclaim
  • acclamation
  • admiration
  • adulation
  • alignment
  • allurement
  • alluring
  • applause
  • appreciation
  • approbation
  • approval
  • arm-twist
  • attraction
  • babble
  • bait
  • baloney
  • blab
  • blandishment
  • blarney
  • blessing
  • bootlicking
  • bouquet
  • brainwashing
  • buttering up
  • cajolement
  • chatter
  • chitchat
  • clack
  • coaxing
  • cogency
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • commendation
  • comp
  • compliments
  • con
  • conference
  • confirmation
  • congratulations
  • conversation
  • conversion
  • convincing
  • courtesy
  • debate
  • decoy
  • dialogue
  • discussion
  • encomium
  • endorsement
  • enticement
  • entreaty
  • eulogy
  • exaggeration
  • exhortation
  • eyewash
  • fair words
  • fascination
  • favor
  • fawning
  • felicitation
  • flatter
  • flattering
  • flattery
  • flummery
  • force
  • fulsomeness
  • gab
  • gallantry
  • good word
  • goose
  • hard sell
  • hokum
  • homage
  • honey
  • honeyed words
  • honor
  • hook
  • incense
  • inducement
  • inducing
  • influencing
  • ingratiation
  • insincere flattery
  • inveiglement
  • jive
  • kudo
  • laud
  • laudation
  • laurels
  • lobbying
  • lure
  • mousetrap
  • mush
  • nobbling
  • notice
  • obsequiousness
  • oil
  • orchid
  • ovation
  • overpersuasion
  • overpraise
  • palaver
  • panegyric
  • parley
  • pat on the back
  • persuading
  • persuasion
  • persuasiveness
  • plaudits
  • posy
  • potency
  • power
  • praise
  • pressuring
  • pretty speech
  • promise
  • promote
  • prompting
  • puffery
  • pull
  • regard
  • respects
  • sanction
  • seduction
  • sell
  • sentiment
  • smooth talk
  • snare
  • snow
  • snow job
  • soft soap
  • soft words
  • soft-soap
  • squeeze
  • stroking
  • suasion
  • swaying
  • sweet nothings
  • sweet words
  • sweet-talk
  • sweetener
  • sweetening
  • sycophancy
  • talk
  • tantalizing
  • temptation
  • tempting
  • toadyism
  • trap
  • tribute
  • truckling
  • unctuousness
  • urging
  • veneration
  • warm fuzzy
  • wheedle
  • wheedling
  • winning over
  • working over

daring

  • absurd
  • accosting
  • adventuresome
  • adventuresomeness
  • adventurous
  • adventurousness
  • affronting
  • approaching
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • balmy
  • battling
  • bearding
  • bold
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassiness
  • brassy
  • brave
  • braveness
  • bravery
  • braving
  • brazening
  • brazenness
  • breasting
  • challenging
  • cheek
  • cheeky
  • cockiness
  • cocky
  • cojones
  • combating
  • combatting
  • confronting
  • cornering
  • courage
  • courageous
  • courageousness
  • crazy
  • crusty
  • daredevil
  • daredevilry
  • daredeviltry
  • daringness
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • dauntlessness
  • defying
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • dumb
  • effrontery
  • emboldened
  • encountering
  • endurance
  • enterprising
  • facing
  • fearless
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fighting
  • fire-eating
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • fortitude
  • forward
  • free-swinging
  • fronting
  • gadarene
  • gall
  • gallant
  • gallantry
  • game
  • go for broke
  • greathearted
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gritty
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardihood
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heart
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • heroism
  • hot shot
  • hotheaded
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudence
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepid
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • irrational
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • meeting
  • mettle
  • moronic
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nutty
  • obtrusive
  • opposing
  • out on a limb
  • outbraving
  • outfacing
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • prowess
  • rash
  • reckless
  • repelling
  • resisting
  • resolution
  • salt
  • salty
  • scatterbrained
  • silly
  • smart
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spunk
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stamina
  • standing
  • standing up to
  • stomach
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stoutness
  • stumping
  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • temerarious
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • unnecessary
  • unreasonable
  • valiance
  • valiant
  • valor
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturesomeness
  • venturous
  • virtue
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • withstanding
  • witless

daringness

  • adventuresomeness
  • adventurousness
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • bravery
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cojones
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daredevilry
  • daredeviltry
  • daring
  • dauntlessness
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fortitude
  • gall
  • gallantry
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • heroism
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • prowess
  • recklessness
  • resolution
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • stomach
  • stoutness
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • valor
  • venturesomeness
  • venturousness
  • virtue

dauntlessness

  • audacity
  • backbone
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • braveness
  • bravery
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • cojones
  • courage
  • courageousness
  • daring
  • daringness
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • effrontery
  • endurance
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fortitude
  • gall
  • gallantry
  • gameness
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • hardihood
  • heart
  • heroism
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • mettle
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • prowess
  • resolution
  • spunk
  • stamina
  • stomach
  • stoutheartedness
  • stoutness
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • undauntedness
  • valiance
  • valiancy
  • valiantness
  • valor
  • virtue

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