What is the difference between brave and bold?
brave | bold | Synonyms |
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:
*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.
(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Making a fine show or display.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
* (1558-1592)
*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A Native American warrior.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
* Dryden
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
* Shakespeare
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2
(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
Courageous, daring.
*, chapter=22
, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
(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.
To make (a font or some text) bold.
(obsolete) To make bold or daring.
(obsolete) To become bold.
(Webster 1913)
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Bold is a synonym of brave.
In obsolete terms the difference between brave and bold
is that brave is having any sort of superiority or excellence while bold is a dwelling; habitation; building.In transitive terms the difference between brave and bold
is that brave is to encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy while bold is to make (a font or some text) bold.In transitive obsolete terms the difference between brave and bold
is that brave is to adorn; to make fine or showy while bold is to make bold or daring.brave
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See alsoAntonyms
* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weakNoun
(en noun)- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .
Verb
- These I can brave , but those I can not bear.
- but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.
Derived terms
* bravely * bravery * bravure 1000 English basic words ----bold
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .Alternative forms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .Adjective
(boldness) (er)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.}}
- It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
- 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 alsoVerb
(en verb)- (Shakespeare)