noun
- A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy.
- usage: "he could never refuse a dare"
- synonyms: dare
- The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.
- usage: "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart"
verb
- Take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission.
- usage: "How dare you call my lawyer"
- To be courageous enough to try or do something.
- usage: "I don't dare call him, "she dares to dress differently from the others"
- synonyms: dare
- Challenge.
- usage: "I dare you"
adjective
- Disposed to venture or take risks.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: audacious, venturesome, venturous
- Radically new or original.
- usage: "an avant-garde theater piece"
- synonyms: avant-garde
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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