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. 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. Charlie Rose:

   CBS is catching up to the ‘Today Show’ because CBS made the daring gamble to be a little different, selecting an old-timer like Charlie Rose and doing long-format interviews aren’t what typically works in morning TV. But CBS has shown that not only is it OK to be different, it pays to be different if you want to distinguish yourself in a marketplace where most network news shows all look and sound alike.

3. Scott C. Holstad:

   Winter is a long descent Into hell, a daring Kidnapper, on whose lips Rest the word always. Look upon it as the rains Do, leafless trees blowing Earthward like constraints, Shackles of the soul.

4. Helen Keller:

   Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

5. Eugene Peterson:

   If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.