daring

daring
n
1. bravery, boldness, courage, valor, hardiness, resoluteness, stalwartness; audacity, derring-do, venturesomeness, adventurousness, fearlessness, intrepidity; enterprise, valor, heart, defiance; nerve, mettle, spirit, grit, pluck, Inf. spunk, Inf. guts; foolhardiness, rashness, temerity, recklessness, desperation; impetuosity, impetuousness.
adj
2. bold, venturesome, adventuresome, adventurous; audacious, brave, courageous, valiant, valorous; fearless, dauntless, intrepid, undaunted, unshrinking, unflinching, plucky, Inf. spunky.
3. impudent, brazen, brassy; unabashed, forward, Inf. fresh, bumptious, Inf. nervy, Inf. cheeky; flagrant, arrant, barefaced.
4. foolhardy, rash, temerarious, reckless, heedless, careless, harebrained; impulsive, madcap, headlong, daredevil, devil-may-care, death-defying, wild.

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