Bold vs High-spirited - What's the difference?

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Bold is a related term of high-spirited.

As adjectives the difference between bold and high-spirited

is that bold is courageous, daring while high-spirited is possessing a bold nature.

As a noun bold

is (obsolete) a dwelling; habitation; building.

As a verb bold

is to make (a font or some text) bold.

bold

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

Alternative forms

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

Adjective

(boldness) (er)

Courageous, daring.

*, chapter=22

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.

(of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.

Presumptuous.

* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.

even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.

Synonyms

* (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also

Verb

(en verb)

To make (a font or some text) bold.

(obsolete) To make bold or daring.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To become bold.

(Webster 1913) ----

high-spirited

English

Adjective

Possessing a bold nature.

* 1816 , , The Black Dwarf , ch. 2:

The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements.

* 1918 , , "The Princess":

"She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish."

Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.

* 1861 , , Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen , ch. 1:

Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot.

* 1920 , , "The Offshore Pirate":

Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.

* 1950 Sept. 25, " Music: Out of the Corner," Time :

Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.