Synonyms for daring
ˈdɛər ɪŋdar·ing

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1. daringnoun

   Synonyms:
   boldness

2. daringadjective

   Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.

   Synonyms:
   boldness, bold, venturesome, dareful, audacious

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1. daring

   The adventurous man goes in quest of danger; the bold man stands out and faces danger or censure; the brave man combines confidence with resolution in presence of danger; the chivalrous man puts himself in peril for others' protection. The daring step out to defy danger; the dauntless will not flinch before anything that may come to them; the doughty will give and take limitless hard knocks. The adventurous find something romantic in dangerous enterprises; the venturesome may be simply heedless, reckless, or ignorant. All great explorers have been adventurous; children, fools, and criminals are venturesome. The fearless and intrepid possess unshaken nerves in any place of danger. Courageous is more than brave, adding a moral element: the courageous man steadily encounters perils to which he may be keenly sensitive, at the call of duty; the gallant are brave in a dashing, showy, and splendid way; the valiant not only dare great dangers, but achieve great results; the heroic are nobly daring and dauntless, truly chivalrous, sublimely courageous. Compare FORTITUDE.

   Synonyms:
   adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

   Antonyms:
   afraid, cowardly, cringing, faint-hearted, fearful, frightened, pusillanimous, shrinking, timid, timorous

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1. daring

   Synonyms:
   adventurous, dashing, bold, courageous, venturesome, dauntless, foolhardy, fearless, brave, intrepid, valorous

   Antonyms:
   cautious, timid, inadventurous

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1. dare, daringnoun

   a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

   "he could never refuse a dare"

   Synonyms:
   dare, boldness, hardihood, hardiness

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, unadventurous

2. boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihoodadjective

   the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

   "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart"

   Synonyms:
   hardihood, hardiness, strikingness, boldness, face, cheek, dare, nerve, brass, robustness, validity, lustiness

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, unadventurous

3. audacious, daring, venturesome, venturousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   unfearing, venturous, intrepid, brave, bald-faced, bodacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, venturesome, insolent, avant-garde, fearless, hardy, dauntless, audacious, brazen

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, unoriginal

4. avant-garde, daringadjective

   radically new or original

   "an avant-garde theater piece"

   Synonyms:
   audacious, avant-garde, venturous, venturesome

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, unoriginal

Matched Categories

1. • Challenge

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. daringadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, adventurous, fearless, brave, intrepid, valorous, valiant, courageous, gallant, chivalrous, doughty, heroic, undaunted, dauntless

2. daringnoun

   Synonyms:
   boldness, intrepidity, valor, bravery, courage

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1. List of paraphrases for "daring":

   bold, 'audace, audacity, audacious, boldness, courageous, conqueror, adventurous, brave, temerity

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How to use daring in a sentence?

1. Don DeLillo:

   If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.

2. Chris Rupkey:

   Builders build and make dreams a reality, but this plan looks like a stretch because the country cannot afford to undertake massive new projects when the national debt is over $31 trillion, there are some interesting ideas here, but this is not the right time for bold plans that dream big. There’s no money left in Uncle Sam’s till to pay for big dreams and daring projects.

3. Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

   I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:The first is deep love,The second is frugality,And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.Because of deep love, one is courageous.Because of frugality, one is generous.Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

4. Theodore Isaac Rubin:

   "The most prevalent and destructive fear is not of sickness or death itself. It is the fear of being human. All of our neurotic symptoms are retaliation against ourselves for daring to be human, this is less than godlike martyrs or masters. This is what psychotherapy is all about: getting over the fear of being human.

5. Theodore Roosevelt:

   The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.