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Intrepid vs Dashing - What's the difference?

intrepid | dashing |

As adjectives the difference between intrepid and dashing

is that intrepid is fearless; bold; brave while dashing is spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.

As a verb dashing is

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As a noun dashing is

the action of the verb to dash.

intrepid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Fearless; bold; brave.
  • :* 2000 — Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy
  • :*: Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

    • Derived terms

    * intrepidity * intrepidness * intrepidly

    Related terms

    * trepidation

    See also

    * fearless * unafraid * courageous

    dashing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
  • Chic, fashionable.
    • All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • The action of the verb to dash.

    • Anagrams

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