DARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does daring mean? 

• DARING (noun)
  The noun DARING has 2 senses:

1. a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

2. the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

  Familiarity information: DARING used as a noun is rare.

• DARING (adjective)
  The adjective DARING has 2 senses:

1. disposed to venture or take risks

2. radically new or original

  Familiarity information: DARING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

dare; daring

Context example:

he could never refuse a dare

Hypernyms ("daring" is a kind of...):

challenge (a call to engage in a contest or fight)

Derivation:

dare (challenge)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

boldness; daring; hardihood; hardiness

Context example:

the plan required great hardiness of heart

Hypernyms ("daring" is a kind of...):

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

Attribute:

bold (fearless and daring)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "daring"):

adventurousness; venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)

daredevilry; daredeviltry (boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior)

audaciousness; audacity; temerity (fearless daring)

brazenness; shamelessness (behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame)

Derivation:

dare (to be courageous enough to try or do something)

• DARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed to venture or take risks

Synonyms:

audacious; daring; venturesome; venturous

Context example:

a venturous spirit

Similar:

adventuresome; adventurous (willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Radically new or original

Synonyms:

avant-garde; daring

Context example:

an avant-garde theater piece

Similar:

original (being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of)

 Context examples 

A hasty drawing back always resulted, accompanied by angry yelps and frightened snarls when a well-aimed brand struck and scorched a too daring animal.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

So he waited with Ruth and watched, desiring to speak his love but not daring.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He was a most daring and successful seal and whale fisher.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A ladder was brought, and I got down after the lady, who was like a haystack: not daring to stir, until her basket was removed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was daring destiny, and he was unafraid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

That going down to the vault a second time was a remarkable piece of daring.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I found some shellfish on the shore, and ate them raw, not daring to kindle a fire, for fear of being discovered by the natives.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The idea amused Jo, who liked to do daring things and was always scandalizing Meg by her queer performances.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You will have courage, daring, and drive.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)