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[ US /ˈdɛɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dˈe‍əɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
    he could never refuse a dare
  2. 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
ADJECTIVE
  1. disposed to venture or take risks
    an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
    a venturous spirit
    the most daring of contemporary fiction writers
    a venturesome investor
    audacious visions of the total conquest of space
  2. radically new or original
    an avant-garde theater piece

How To Use daring In A Sentence

  • And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute! The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Evelyn answered, crossing her arms across her chest, as if daring her mother to challenge her.
  • A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
  • So we plunge into its dingy maze with a hopeful and daring sensation of truantry. Times, Sunday Times
  • This answer, you'll see by the enclosed news paper, was unanimously voted to be not satisfactory to the Town, and the next day, on Mr. Hutchinson's sending into the Town Meeting an answer of the same purport, both his and ours were voted to be daringly affrontive to the Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)
  • The team consists of six daring riders who perform a whole range of stunts from high jumps to wheelies on motorcycles, quad bikes and three-wheelers.
  • An unspecified surfer from the USA came by via Yahoo looking for "gisele lindley" -- Ms. Lindley was the daring and lovely actress who played Princess in Oingo Boingo's misbegotten Forbidden Zone movie. View from the Northern Border
  • The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
  • This week actor Alan Rachins, better known as the balding popinjay Douglas Brackman of "L.A. Law," shucks his pinstripes for something more daring. He Left His Briefs Behind
  • He had fallen for her rebellious daring personality the moment they met.
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