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Wiktionary4.5 / 2 votes

  1. braveadjective

    Synonyms:
    resilient, doughty, courageous, stalwart

    Antonyms:
    cowardly, mean, fearful, weak

  2. braveadjective

    A Native American warrior.

    Synonyms:
    resilient, courageous, doughty, stalwart

    Antonyms:
    mean, cowardly, weak, fearful

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. brave

    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, chivalric, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, undaunted, undismayed, valiant, venturesome

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

Princeton's WordNet3.7 / 3 votes

  1. bravenoun

    a North American Indian warrior

    Antonyms:
    cautious, timid, colorless, fearful, chicken, yellow-bellied, unmanly, poor-spirited, poltroon, craven, yellow, pusillanimous, fainthearted, dastardly, colourless, white-livered, faint-hearted, funky, caitiff, faint, chickenhearted, recreant, dastard(a), cowardly, lily-livered

  2. braveadjective

    people who are brave

    "the home of the free and the brave"

    Antonyms:
    cautious, timid, fainthearted, colorless, faint-hearted, colourless, yellow, chicken, funky, craven, white-livered, yellow-bellied, dastard(a), unmanly, fearful, cowardly, dastardly, recreant, faint, lily-livered, caitiff, poltroon, chickenhearted, poor-spirited, pusillanimous

  3. brave, courageousadjective

    possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

    "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"

    Synonyms:
    hardy, dauntless, courageous, gay, intrepid, unfearing, fearless, braw, audacious

    Antonyms:
    cautious, timid, poltroon, colorless, fainthearted, recreant, dastard(a), colourless, dastardly, poor-spirited, craven, yellow, chicken, lily-livered, funky, fearful, yellow-bellied, pusillanimous, cowardly, caitiff, white-livered, faint, unmanly, faint-hearted, chickenhearted

  4. audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearingadjective

    invulnerable to fear or intimidation

    "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

    Synonyms:
    unfearing, venturous, intrepid, courageous, bald-faced, bodacious, braw, unafraid(p), barefaced, brassy, stout, brazen-faced, gay, daring, sturdy, venturesome, insolent, stalwart, fearless, hardy, dauntless, audacious, brazen

    Antonyms:
    timid, cautious, dastardly, cowardly, chicken, pusillanimous, colourless, fainthearted, yellow-bellied, fearful, faint, poltroon, yellow, dastard(a), poor-spirited, colorless, chickenhearted, recreant, white-livered, lily-livered, caitiff, unmanly, craven, faint-hearted, funky

  5. brave, braw, gayverb

    brightly colored and showy

    "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage"

    Synonyms:
    unfearing, intrepid, jocund, jovial, festive, courageous, homophile(a), braw, sunny, gay, audacious, cheery, mirthful, merry, fearless, hardy, dauntless, festal, jolly

    Antonyms:
    cautious, timid, recreant, faint-hearted, colorless, dastardly, funky, colourless, poltroon, chicken, yellow, lily-livered, yellow-bellied, dastard(a), white-livered, craven, pusillanimous, caitiff, chickenhearted, fainthearted, unmanly, poor-spirited, cowardly, faint, fearful

  6. weather, endure, brave, brave outverb

    face and withstand with courage

    "She braved the elements"

    Synonyms:
    go, live, put up, stand, last, brave out, support, hold up, hold out, persist, stomach, digest, suffer, live on, brook, prevail, stick out, run, tolerate, wear, endure, survive, bear, abide, weather, die hard

    Antonyms:
    timid, cautious, faint-hearted, cowardly, unmanly, chickenhearted, caitiff, faint, yellow-bellied, poltroon, white-livered, lily-livered, colourless, colorless, recreant, chicken, craven, poor-spirited, dastard(a), pusillanimous, fearful, yellow, fainthearted, funky, dastardly

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Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. bloomingdale's

    super fellows who r always joking

    anand is a bloomingdales fellow

    Submitted by 6a222021 on August 11, 2020  
  2. brazer

    when someone is bold

    Submitted by anonymous on December 17, 2019  
  3. ruby bridges

    she was brave my going into an all-white school.

    "ruby, you are so brave"

    Submitted by enewell on October 10, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 2 votes

  1. braveadjective

    Synonyms:
    fearless (from temperament), COURAGEOUS, intrepid, daring, undaunted, dauntless, valiant, bold, chivalrous, chivalric, gallant, valorous, doughty, heroic, spartan, lion-hearted

  2. bravenoun

    Synonyms:
    [Rare.] bully, hector, blusterer

  3. bravenoun

    Synonyms:
    indian warrior

  4. braveverb

    Synonyms:
    defy, dare, challenge, set at defiance

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How to use brave in a sentence?

  1. Nelson Mandela:

    I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  2. Elizabeth Warren:

    These credible and troubling allegations from Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson make it clear that Lieutenant Governor Fairfax should resign. My heart goes out to these brave women and their families.

  3. Donald Trump:

    An attorney general who has really led the way. Somebody who has been brave and strong.

  4. Brooke Andersen:

    Land of the free, home of the brave — do they include minority people? Because black people were considered three-fifths of a person at the time.

  5. Norman Korpi:

    In the early days, they couldn't have a gay [cast member] so they made me bisexual, one day, Ellen [DeGeneres] came up to me out of the blue, it was an art opening and said, 'I couldn't believe how brave you were. It took me like five years to even do anything.' I was like, 'Whaaaat?' You don't even think people paid attention or knew you.


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