daring [dair-ing] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
dare [dair]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: challenge, defy someone
Synonyms: beard, brave, bully, call one's bluff, confront, cope, denounce, disregard, face, face off, front, goad, insult, knock chip off shoulder, laugh at, make my day, meet, mock, muster courage, oppose, outdare, provoke, resist, run the gauntlet, scorn, spurn, square off, step over the line, take one on, taunt, threaten, throw down gauntlet
Main Entry: daring
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: adventurous
Synonyms: adventuresome, audacious, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky, cocky, courageous, crusty, fearless, fire eating, foolhardy, forward, game, go for broke, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hot shot, impudent, impulsive, intrepid, nervy, obtrusive, out on a limb, plucky, rash, reckless, salty, smart, smart-alecky, spunky*, temerarious, valiant, venturesome
Antonyms: afraid, bashful, chicken, cowardly, fearful, meek, shy, timid, unadventurous, unwilling
Main Entry: daring
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boldness
Synonyms: adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, brassiness, braveness, cheek, cockiness, courageousness, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daringness, fearlessness, grit, guts, impudence, nerve, pluck, salt, spunk, valiance, venturesomeness
Example Sentences
  • Spaniards are even daring to glance affectionately at the past and laugh.
  • Cisco's gear is the more daring because it is a dedicated video-calling system.
  • See villagers perform this daring feat as they literally risk their necks to secure harvest blessings and prove their bravery.
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Main Entry: accost
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: approach for conversation or solicitation
Synonyms: address, annoy, bother, brace*, buttonhole, call, challenge, confront, cross, dare, entice, face, flag, greet, hail, proposition, run into, salute, welcome, whistle for
Antonyms: avoid, dodge, evade, ignore, scorn, shun
Main Entry: active
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very involved in activity
Synonyms: aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, bustling, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enlivened, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, fireball, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, hard-working, high-spirited, hyper, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, on the move, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous
Notes: active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads
Antonyms: disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet
Main Entry: bold
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: brave
Synonyms: adventurous, assuming, audacious, aweless, bantam, courageous, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, forward, gallant, heroic, intrepid, resolute, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous
Antonyms: afraid, cowardly, fearful, meek, shy, timid, weak
Main Entry: brave
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bold
Synonyms: adventurous, audacious, chin-up, chivalrous, confident, courageous, daring, dashing, dauntless, defiant, doughty, fearless, firm, foolhardy, forward, gallant, game, gritty, gutsy, hardy, heroic, herolike, imprudent, indomitable, intrepid, lionhearted, militant, nervy, plucky, reckless, resolute, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, strong, unabashed, unafraid, unblenching, undauntable, undaunted, undismayed, unfearful, valiant, valorous, venturesome
Antonyms: afraid, cautious, fearful, frightened, humble, meek, reticent, retiring, shy, timid
Main Entry: brave
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: endure bad situation
Synonyms: bear, beard, challenge, confront, court, dare, defy, face, face off, fly in the face of, go through, outdare, risk, stand up to, suffer, support, take on, venture, withstand
Antonyms: break down, capitulate, complain, dodge, fear, give up, hide, run away, skip
Main Entry: bravery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boldness
Synonyms: courage, daring, dauntlessness, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, grit, guts, hardiness, heroism, indomitability, intrepidity, mettle, pluck, pluckiness, spirit, spunk, valor
Antonyms: cowardice, diffidence, humility, timidity
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