Meaning of DARING
| Pronunciation: | | 'dehring
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- [n] the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"
- [n] a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare"
- [adj] disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
- [adj] radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"
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| | Synonyms: | | adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, avant-garde, boldness, dare, hardihood, original, venturesome, venturous |
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| | Antonyms: | | timidity, timorousness | | |
| | See Also: | | adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, brazenness, challenge, daredevilry, daredeviltry, fearlessness, shamelessness, temerity, venturesomeness | |
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\Dar"ing\, n.
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
\Dar"ing\, a.
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. --
{Dar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Dar"ing*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | adventuresome, adventuresomeness, adventurous, adventurousness, arrogance, arrogant, audacious, audaciousness, audacity, balls, blazon, bold, bold front, boldness, bottle, brash, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, brassy, bravado, brave, bravery, bravura, braw, brazen, brazenness, brilliancy, brinkmanship, bumptious, bumptiousness, challenging, cheekiness, cheeky, chichi, cockiness, cocky, contempt, contemptuous, contemptuousness, courage, courage fou, courageous, courting disaster, daredevil, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daringness, dash, dashing, death-defying, defial, defiance, defiant, defying, demonstration, derision, derisive, derring-do, despite, disdain, disdainful, display, disregard, disregardful, dramatics, dressy, eclat, enterprise, enterprising, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, exhibitionistic, false front, fanfaronade, fearless, fearlessness, figure, fire-eating, flair, flashing, flashy, flaunt, flaunting, flirting with death, flourish, foolhardiness, foolhardy, forward, forwardness, frilly, frothy, gallant, gay, glittering, going for broke, greatly daring, grit, guts, gutsy, hardy, harebrained, harebrainedness, histrionics, impertinence, impertinent, impudence, impudent, insolence, insolent, intrepid, intrepidity, jaunty, jazzy, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, manifestation, mettle, mettlesome, nerve, nervy, overbold, overboldness, pageant, pageantry, parade, pert, pertness, playing with fire, pluck, plucky, presumption, presumptuous, presumptuousness, rakish, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, sauciness, saucy, sham, show, showing-off, showy, snazzy, spectacle, spirit, splash, splashy, splurge, splurgy, sporty, spunk, staginess, temerarious, theatrics, unafraid, valor, valorous, vaunt, venturesome, venturesomeness, venturous, venturousness, wild, wild-ass |
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