daring

  • (s) 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
    venturesome, venturous, audacious,
  • (s) radically new or original
    • an avant-garde theater piece
    avant-garde,

Nouns

  • (n) a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
    • he could never refuse a dare
    dare,
  • (n) 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
    boldness, hardihood, hardiness,

Synonyms

dare venturesome venturous audacious boldness hardihood hardiness avant-garde

Antonyms

timidity timorousness

Words of close approximity

daringly