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Intrepid vs Foolhardy - What's the difference?

intrepid | foolhardy |

As adjectives the difference between intrepid and foolhardy

is that intrepid is fearless; bold; brave while foolhardy is marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; bold but rash; hotheaded.

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

    foolhardy

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Marked by unthinking recklessness with disregard for danger; bold but rash; hotheaded
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1876 , author=Mark Twain , title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , chapter=6 citation , passage=The master’s pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this foolhardy boy had lost his mind.}}
  • * 2000 . Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , p. 14:
    • In the middle distance several foolhardy souls in wet suits were surfing toward some foamy outbursts on the rocky headland...

    Synonyms

    * bold * foolish * rash * daring * reckless

    Derived terms

    * foolhardiness