daring

[Dar·ing]

To be daring is to be bold, adventurous, and a little nervy. It’s a quality possessed by people who tend to take risks. If someone says, “I dare you,” and you always do, you’re a daring person.

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Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

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

Noun
a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare"

Adjective 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"

Adjective S.
radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Dare

n.
Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

a.
Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.


Daring

Dar"ing , n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

Daring

Dar"ing, a. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- Dar"ing*ly, adv. -- Dar"ing*ness, n.

Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.

Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

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Usage Examples

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

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Other Usage Examples

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Last year, when 'Black Swan,' 'True Grit' and 'King's Speech' all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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