'Daring' definitions:

Definition of 'daring'

From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]
adjective
Radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece" [syn: avant-garde, daring]
noun
A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare" [syn: dare, daring]
noun
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" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness]

Definition of 'Daring'

From: GCIDE
  • Dare \Dare\ (d[^a]r), v. i. [imp. Durst (d[^u]rst) or Dared (d[^a]rd); p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.] [OE. I dar, dear, I dare, imp. dorste, durste, AS. ic dear I dare, imp. dorste. inf. durran; akin to OS. gidar, gidorsta, gidurran, OHG. tar, torsta, turran, Goth. gadar, gada['u]rsta, Gr. tharsei^n, tharrei^n, to be bold, tharsy`s bold, Skr. Dhrsh to be bold. [root]70.] To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. [1913 Webster]
  • I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Bacause they durst not, because they could not. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • Who dared to sully her sweet love with suspicion. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • The tie of party was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. --Jowett (Thu?yd.). [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans. --Skeat. [1913 Webster]
  • The pore dar plede (the poor man dare plead). --P. Plowman. [1913 Webster]
  • You know one dare not discover you. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • The fellow dares not deceive me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Here boldly spread thy hands, no venom'd weed Dares blister them, no slimy snail dare creep. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Formerly durst was also used as the present. Sometimes the old form dare is found for durst or dared. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Daring'

From: GCIDE
  • Dare \Dare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dared; p. pr. & vb. n. Daring.]
  • 1. To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake. [1913 Webster]
  • What high concentration of steady feeling makes men dare every thing and do anything? --Bagehot. [1913 Webster]
  • To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes. --The Century. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To challenge; to provoke; to defy. [1913 Webster]
  • Time, I dare thee to discover Such a youth and such a lover. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Daring'

From: GCIDE
  • Daring \Dar"ing\, n. Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Daring'

From: GCIDE
  • Daring \Dar"ing\, a. Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits. -- {Dar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Dar"ing*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'daring'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Daring'