daring
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Synonyms & Antonyms for daring
Synonyms: Adjective
adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, dashing, emboldened, enterprising, free-swinging, gutsy, hardy, nerved, nervy, venturesome, venturous
Synonyms: Noun
bottle [British slang], bravery, courage, courageousness, daringness, dauntlessness, doughtiness, fearlessness, gallantry, greatheartedness, guts, gutsiness, hardihood, heart, heroism, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, intrepidness, moxie, nerve, pecker [chiefly British], prowess, stoutness, valor, virtue
Antonyms: Adjective
Antonyms: Noun
cowardice, cowardliness, cravenness, dastardliness, poltroonery, spinelessness
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Examples of daring in a Sentence
Adjective
a daring reporter who has covered several wars She's a daring innovator in the field of biotechnology. a daring plan to steal the famous painting She decided to wear a daring dress to the party. ideas that are new and daring the artist's daring use of colorNoun
Skydiving requires both skill and daring. He performs the trick with the daring of a stuntman.
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Last year in Thailand, 12 teenage boys and their soccer coach were rescued in a daring operation after spending nine nights in a cave that got cut off by rising water. — Washington Post, "Rescuers use explosives to seek 2 cavers trapped in Poland," 19 Aug. 2019 The US Coast Guard pulled off a daring operation that seized more than $569 million worth of cocaine and marijuana from a submarine. — Christi Scott, CNN, "Must-watch videos of the week," 12 July 2019 Clearly not one to stick to one look too long, her latest hair decision may be her most daring and innovative. — Rachel Lubitz, refinery29.com, "Billie Eilish Just Dyed Her Hair A Wild New Colour — & Fans Love It," 4 July 2019 As the Hollywood Reporter notes, the film was originally both more daring and more topical, and the sharp edges were eased out during a series of behind-the-scenes struggles between director F. Gary Gray and producer Walter Parkes. — Jesse Hassenger, The Verge, "Men in Black: International and Shaft show the limits of modern film franchises," 21 June 2019 Water skiing across Lake Michigan might sound daring, dangerous or dumb. — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Can you waterski across Lake Michigan? Yep. Two teens skiied 62 miles from Wisconsin to Michigan," 14 Aug. 2019 Maybe the company’s imaginatively daring and cosmopolitan president and chief executive, Christopher Koelsch, should run the whole show (it’s kind of hard to figure out who does what). — Los Angeles Times, "Commentary: What sexual harassment allegations against Placido Domingo could mean for opera culture," 14 Aug. 2019 The hair is daring, bold, and quite different from her mother-of-dragons look (who could forget Daenerys Targaryen's platinum blonde braids?). — Marina Liao, Marie Claire, "Emilia Clarke Arrived at an HBO Premiere In This Stunning Menswear-Inspired Outfit," 5 Oct. 2018 Goodfriend had been basically daring major broadcasters to sue. — Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, "ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC Sue Over Locast, a Free Streaming App," 31 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Throw in the 270-degree views of the nearby valleys of Santa Fe, and the home is a daring and colorful take on a modern art house. — Megan Barber, Curbed, "Art-filled contemporary in Santa Fe asks $4M," 12 July 2019 The combination of desert minimalism and architectural daring ushered in an era of swizzle sticks and domestic idealism. — Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, "Seeking silence on a California road trip," 6 Aug. 2019 But only a civilization capable of rewarding skill and science, teamwork and daring — also ours — could have done it. — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 25 July 2019 But Finding Dory diminishes Nemo’s philosophy of perseverance and communal kindness a bit, drowned out by a plot whose daring rescues frequently verge into the extravagant and often undermine the urgency of Dory’s quest to find her parents. — Allegra Frank, Vox, "All 21 Pixar movies, definitively ranked," 27 June 2019 Across the Channel, American and British paratroopers dropped into northwestern France and scaled cliffs beside Normandy beaches, recreating the daring, costly invasion that helped liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. — Danica Kirka, Time, "President Trump Joins World Leaders to Honor Veterans on D-Day Anniversary," 5 June 2019 The beach is backed by a pine forest, which is almost secondary to the menu of rental recreation: speedboats, jet skis, kayaks and SUP, with parasailing for the daring and pedal boats for the demure. — Allen Pierleoni, The Mercury News, "8 spectacular Lake Tahoe beaches for maximum frolic," 30 June 2019 The daring and spectacular three-wood from the fairway at the par-five 14th that barely cleared a bunker and led to a birdie. — Tod Leonard, latimes.com, "Gary Woodland wins the U.S. Open for his first major title," 16 June 2019 The daring and spectacular 3-wood from the fairway at the par-5 14th that barely cleared a bunker and led to a birdie. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Woodland’s U.S. Open victory is all about the shot making," 16 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'daring.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.