Antonyms 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

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. daring

   Antonyms:
   cautious, timid, inadventurous

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

Matched Categories

1. • Challenge

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. dare, daringnoun

   a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

   "he could never refuse a dare"

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, unadventurous

   Synonyms:
   dare, boldness, hardihood, hardiness

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"

   Antonyms:
   unoriginal, unadventurous

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

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"

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, unoriginal

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

4. avant-garde, daringadjective

   radically new or original

   "an avant-garde theater piece"

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, unoriginal

   Synonyms:
   audacious, avant-garde, venturous, venturesome

How to use daring in a sentence?

1. Lucan:

   A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

2. Katy Wu:

   If you see her onstage, she's daring in her own way, she doesn't conform; she does what she wants.

3. Horace:

   Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

4. Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao:

   Businesses have continued to disregard Zimbabwe's indigenisation laws as if daring our President and his government to do something about their contemptuous behaviour, it's either you comply or you close shop.

5. Producer Charles Roven:

   It's hopeless as a secret. Also (characterizing something as a secret is) like daring them to get it. The point is protecting people's enjoyment of the film. the movie will be successful if both those who have been fans of the material appreciate it, have fun with this, walk out and talk about it, but also those who have never seen a Batman movie, a Superman movie, a Wonder Woman TV show, they decide to come take a look and they are also won over and moved by it.

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