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

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1. • Challenge

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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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1. William Bolitho:

   An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.

2. Richard Willard Armour:

   Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

3. Publilius Syrus:

   Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

4. Ken Paxton:

   This case is about abusing the power of the subpoena to force Exxon to turn over many decades’ worth of records, so an attorney general with an agenda can pore over them in hopes of finding something incriminating, [It] ... represents an effort to punish Exxon for daring to hold an opinion on climate change that differs from that of radical environmentalists.

5. Riccardo Tisci:

   ...The Victorian era (was) a time in Britain for great change and progress, an era that has always inspired me and my work, (Burberry) chose to present his company with an emblem of a knight on a horse, but for his family crest, he instead chose a unicorn. Thomas Burberry was a daring innovator but also a romantic and a dreamer.