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

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Intrepid is a related term of high-spirited.


As adjectives the difference between intrepid and high-spirited

is that intrepid is fearless; bold; brave while high-spirited is possessing a bold nature.

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

    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.