Daring

Definition: Daring

Daring

Adjective

1. 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".

2. Radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece".

Noun

1. A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare".

2. The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "daring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Daring

Courage

Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance.

Bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass.

Defiance

Noun: defiance; daring & Verb:; dare; challenge, cartel; threat; war cry, war whoop.

Imagination

Warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.

Crosswords: Daring

They were men of daring, of bold action and brute strength (Once Upon a Horse...; writing credit: Henry Gregor Felsen; Hal Kanter)

Wow! That was just an incredibly daring escape (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

THINGS THAT ARE DARING THINGS THAT ARE CLEAN (Foolish Games; performing artist: Jewel)

Dashing and daring, a drink he was sharing ("El Paso"; performing artist: Marty Robbins)

There, almost daring him to try and pick him off. The pitcher (Paradise By The Dashboard Light; performing artist: Meat Loaf)

The Daring Dobermans (1973)

Daring Game (1968)

The Daring Caballero (1949)

Three Daring Daughters (1948)

The Daring Young Man (1942)

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References

• Daring O. Sain: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan (reference)

• Daring to Dream (reference)

• Daring!: The Redstone Diary 2003 Engagement Calendar (reference)

• Death, Daring and Disaster: Search and Rescue in the National Parks (reference)

• Three Complete Novels: Daring to Dream/Holding the Dream/Finding the Dream (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• World's Most Daring Robberies (reference)

• Daring Game (reference)

• Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (reference)

• Three Daring Daughters (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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An adult black man is pictured here alone. He was diagnosed as having osteogenic sarcoma in his upper left arm. Surgeons performed a new procedure implanting a metal rod in place of the cancerous bone. Since muscle and tendon were saved, he is able to use his left arm. Surgeons could attempt this daring new technique since the cancer had not spread. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pilot of the Confederate Army armed transport Planter, who ran his ship out of Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, in the early morning of 13 May 1862 and delivered her to Federal forces. The Planter carried several other black men, women and children to freedom in this daring escape. Credit: NAVY.

The daring young man --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Japan's aggressor: Admiral Yamamoto His was the daring execution of a brilliant treachery / / Arthur Szyk, N.Y., 1941. Credit: Library of Congress.

Listen! The storm also calls to us: Be daring!] [The nation's volunteer efforts for the redemption of the land - Jewish National Fund] / / [A. Alhanani ; A. Kaufman]. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He was dressed in a blouse which was in part a capote, was restless and daring, looking behind and before as he went

A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms

He sat by the fire in the kitchen, not daring to speak for happiness

The King enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to every danger

I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives

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Civil Liberties

China

The publishing industry consists of three kinds of book businesses: Roughly 500 Government-sanctioned publishing houses, smaller independent publishers that cooperate with official publishing houses to put out more daring publications, and an underground press. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

In 1986, then King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister Peres for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. (references)

Human Rights

Mexico

On December 10, Amnesty International published a report entitled Mexico: Daring to Raise their Voices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "daring": daring exploit ♦ daring imagination ♦ daring man. Additional references.

Beginning with "daring": daring-do.

Ending with "daring": ultra-daring.

Albanian

trimëri (belligerency, bravery, gallantry, hardihood, hardiness, intrepidity, stoutness, valiancy, valor, valour), trim (baresark, berserk, berserker, brave, cant, courageous, dare devil, Dauntless, Doughty, fearless, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), që rrezikon, i krisur (balmy, bonkers, cracked, crackers, cuckoo, Daffy, dare devil, desperate, devil may care, flaky, hard on, loon, loony, madcap, nut, nuts, pixilated, potty, screwball, wacky), guximtar (audacious, bold, bold man, courageous, courageous man, dare devil, foolhardy, gallant, game, gritty, hardy man, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spunky, stout, stouthearted, temerarious, tossy), guxim (audacity, boldness, courage, dare, doughtiness, fearlessness, fortitude, forwardness, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, intrepidity, mettle, nerve, pluck, spirit, spunk, stoutness, valor, valorous, valour). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جسور (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, stout hearted), ‏جسارة (boldness, dare, fearlessness, intrepidity, temerity), ‏جرىء (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, defiant, fearless, forward, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, stout, stout hearted), ‏جراءة (audacity, bravery, courage, hardiness, temerity, valor, valour), ‏جرأة (boldness, bravery, courage, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, stoutness, undauntedness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърцатост, сърцат (great-hearted, high-hearted), смелост (audacity, boldness, bravery, courage, enterprise, gallantry, hardihood, hardiness, manliness, pluck, sand, spirit, valor, valour), смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant, venturesome), авантюристичност (adventurousness), авантюристичен (adventurous, cloak-and-dagger), дързък (arrogant, assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, saucy, venturesome), дързост (arrogance, assumption, audacity, cheek, contumely, forwardness, hardihood, hardiness, impudence, intrepidity, nerve, pluck, sauce, temerity, uppishness). (various references)

Chinese 

膽大 , 大胆 (Audacious, Blatant, Bold, Boldness), 大膽 (courageous, fearless). (various references)

Czech

troufalost (audacity, temerity), troufalý (bold, daredevil, forward, fresh, pert, presumptuous), smìlý (audacious, bold, pert, spunky, stouthearted), odvaha (boldness, courage, doughtiness, grit, guts, high spirits, mettle, nerve, spirit, spunk, valor, valour), odvážný (audacious, brave, courageous, fearless, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, mettlesome, perilous, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart, venturesome), husarský, bravurní. (various references)

Dutch

stoutmoedig (audacious, bold, courageous, fearless, intrepid), stout (audacious, bold, courageous, fearless, intrepid), gedurfd (audacious, bold, intrepid), brutaal (abandoned, audacious, bold, brazen, impertinent, impudent, intrepid, rude). (various references)

Esperanto

maltimema, aŭdaco (audacity, boldness), aŭdaca (audacious, bold, intrepid). (various references)

Finnish

uskallus (boldness, courage), uskalias (audacious, bold, hazardous, risky, venturesome), uskaliaisuus (boldness), uhkarohkeus (rashness), uhkarohkea (foolhardy, rash, reckless), huimapäisyys (foolhardiness, recklessness), huimapäinen (dashing, foolhardy). (various references)

French

hardi, audace (dare). (various references)

German

wagemutig (audacious, bold), wagend (risking, venturing). (various references)

Greek 

τόλμημα (bold, venture), τόλμη (boldness, guts, hardihood, hardiness, mettle, mettled, nerve, pluck, spunk, temerity). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעפיל (brave), מעפל (audacity, bravery), עוז רוח (audacity, courage, fortitude, valour), חלוצי (pioneering), �"עפל�" (audacity, blockade running, immigration, mountaineering, venture), �"עז�" (audacity, bravado, hazard, impertinence, insolence, nerve, temerity, venture), �"ר�"ב�" (venture), � ועזות (boldness, courage), � ועז (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, desperate, enterprising, fearless, forward, venturesome), � חשו� י (adventurous), � חשו� ות (pioneering). (various references)

Hungarian

merészség (boldness, brass, bravery, cockiness, foolhardiness, intrepidity), merész (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, coup, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, intrepid, parlous, plucky, presumptuous, risky, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous). (various references)

Indonesian

keberanian (bravery, courage, gallantry, mettle, spunk, valiance, valor, valour). (various references)

Italian

audacia (adventurousness, audaciousness, audacity, boldness, spunk, temerity), audace (audacious, bold, daredevil, go ahead, lionhearted, rash, risque), ardito (bold, dashing, Hardy, intrepid), arditezza (boldness, courage, hardihood). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

大胆 (audacious, bold), 勇猛 (bravery, valor). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きか�"き (unyielding), ひょうか�" (fierceness), ふてき (bold, fearless, impropriety, inadequacy, inappropriateness, intrepid, tough, unfitness), か�"い (an official rank, easiness, office and rank, quasi-, simplicity, system indicating court ranks by headgear colors), ゆうもう (bravery, valor), � いた�" (audacious, bold). (various references)

Manx

dunnal (brave, heroic), daanys (boldness, cheek, cockiness, confidence, effrontery, resolution, rudeness, self-assurance), daaney (bold, cheeky, cocky, confident, presumptuous, rude). (various references)

Norwegian

dristig, vågal. (various references)

Pig Latin

aringday.(various references)

Portuguese

audaz (audacious, bold, chanceful, courageous, dauntless, devil, intrepid, undaunted, venturesome), ousado (audacious, chanceful, confident, hardy, high-spirited, intrepid, perky, plucky, reckless, unabashed, venturesome), audácia (audaciousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, insolence), arriscado (audacious, breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, hazardous, intrepid, perilous, precarious, risky, scabrous, speculative, touch-and-go, ugly, unsafe, venturesome). (various references)

Romanian

dârzenie (boldness, firmness, sauciness, steadfastness, stubbornness), dârz (adamant, audacious, gamy, resistant, saucy, steadfast, stout, stoutly, strong-minded, stubborn, unflinching), temeritate (foolhardiness, nerve, temerity), semeţie (haughtiness), semeţ (arrogant, brave, bravely, conceited, daringly, haughtily, haughty, hoity toity, lofty, lordly, temerarious), cutezanţã (boldness, derring-do, enterprise, intrepidity), cutezãtor (bold, boldly, courageous, daringly, dashing, enterprising, foolhardy, Hardy, intrepid, intrepidly, nervy, stout), curajos (bold, brave, courageous, Dauntless, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, high-spirited, manful, nervy, pluckily, plucky, reckless, spirited, stalwart, stout, temerarious, unflinching, vigorous), îndrãznealã (audacity, boldness, courage, face, fearlessness, forwardness, front, hardihood, impudence, pertness, recklessness, sand, temerity), îndrãzneţ (assuming, audacious, bold, boldly, cheeky, cocky, courageous, fearless, gallant, high-spirited, intrepid, manful, nervy, overdaring, reckless, risky, venturesome). (various references)

Russian 

смелость (adventurousness, audacity, boldness, confidence, courage, Dutch courage, grittiness, gumption, hardihood, hardiness, pecker, pluck, pluckiness, spunk, spunkiness, temerity), решаться смелый, отважный (adventurous, courageous, high-spirited, plucky), бедовый (full of mischief), дерзкий (audacious, bold, brash, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, sassy, saucy, tossy), дерзновенный (audacious), дерзание. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome), smeo (bold, brave, courageous, high-spirited, manful, plucky, risque, venturesome, venturous), smelost (boldness, courage, hardihood, hardiness), odvažan (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, hardy, mettled, mettlesome). (various references)

Spanish

atrevido (audacious, bold, daredevil, foppish, forward, impudent, insolent, naughty, pert, presumptuous, venturesome). (various references)

Swedish

vågad (risque). (various references)

Turkish

yiğitlik (achievements, bravery, courage, dare devilry, dare deviltry, doughtiness, exploit, feat, gallantry, gameness, intrepidity, manfulness, pluckiness, prowess, stoutness, valiantness, valor, virility), tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, venturesome, wildcat), serüvenci (adventurer), rizikolu (risky, wildcat), pervasızlık (dauntlessness, recklessness), pervasız (bluff, careless, daft, devil may care, fearless, fond, gutsy, harum scarum, reckless), gözüpeklik (audaciousness, boldness, dare devilry, dare deviltry, derring-do, venturesomeness), gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, courageous, dare devil, fearless, gamy, gutsy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, venturesome, Venturous), cesurluk (audaciousness, boldness, courageousness, gameness, intrepidity, pluckiness, resoluteness), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), cesaret (audacity, bear up, boldness, bravery, chivalry, courage, doughtiness, enterprise, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, grit, gumption, guts, hardihood, hardiness, heart, nerve, pecker, pluck, prowess, sand, spirit, spunk, stoutness, ticker, valiantness, valor, valour), cüretli (adventurous, audacious, bold, confident, forward, presuming, presumptuous), cüretkâr (Hardy, insolent), cüret (audacity, boldness, brass, chutzpa, chutzpah, derring-do, forwardness, front, hardihood, hardiness, nerve, presumption, temerity, venture), atak (attack, confident, dapper, dashing, gutsy, heady, mettled, mettlesome, militant, push, pushful, pushing, rash, reckless, spunky, Venturous). (various references)

Ukrainian

сміливість (audacity, bield, courage, gumption, hardihood, pluck), сміливий (amazonian, audacious, cant, courageous, game, gamy, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky, venturesome), відвага (audacity, courage, doughtiness, hardiness, prowess, stoutness), відважний (berserker, bold, courageous, high-spirited, stalwart, stout), зухвалий (aggressive, audacious, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise), завзятий (audacious, fervent, mettled, mettlesome, pertinacious, proud, stubborn, unsparing), дерзання. (various references)

Vietnamese 

táo bạo (bold, dare-devil, dashing, manful, reckless, temerarious), sự táo bạo (derring-do, hardihood, temerity), sự cả gan (audaciousness, audacity, cheek, cheekiness, temerity), cả gan; phiêu lưu. (various references)

Welsh

herfeiddiol (defiant), glew (astute, brave), beiddgarwch (audacity), beiddgar (audacious). (various references)

audace, audaces, audaci, audacia, audaciae, audaciam, audacius, audax, audentes, ausi, ausus, ferocia. (various references)

frecne, gedyrstig. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "daring": daringly, daringness, daringnesses, darings. (additional references)

Words ending with "daring": calendaring, outdaring, overdaring, undaring. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Daring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aring, daig, daign, dairing, dairn, dairnt, daling, daning, darag, Daragh, D'aran, darian, darin, Darina, darni, darnis, D'arpino, Darrig, darring, darzi, d'asino, dawing, daying, derang, derig, Derring, Derrings, Derwig, diakrino, doring, draming, drang, Drimnagh, dring, dringy, drong, dyading, dyring, karang, varing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gradin.

-1 letter: dinar, drain, garni, grain, grand, grind, nadir, ranid.

-2 letters: agin, airn, arid, dang, darn, ding, drag, gadi, gain, gird, girn, gnar, grad, gran, grid, grin, nard, ragi, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rind, ring.

-3 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, dag, dig, din, gad, gan, gar, gid, gin, nag, rad, rag, ran, ria.

+1 letter: adoring, barding, brigand, carding, darings, darking, darling, darning, darting, deraign, draping, drawing, draying, farding, gradine, grading, gradins, grained, larding, radding, raiding, reading, trading, warding, yarding.

+2 letters: abrading, adhering, adjuring, admiring, adorning, antidrug, arcading, awarding, bearding, boarding, bradding, braiding, branding, breading, brigands, carangid, cardigan, cardings, cradling, dairying, daringly, darkling, darlings, darnings, dartling, deairing, deraigns, derating, drabbing, drafting, dragging, dragline, drainage, draining, dramming, dratting, drawings, drawling, dreading, dreaming, dwarfing, gardenia, gradient, gradines, grandkid, grandsir, guardian, guarding, handgrip, hangbird, hoarding, margined, midrange, mridanga, niggards, organdie, parading, raddling, radioing, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, rigadoon, rigaudon, swarding, treading, undaring.