Indomitable vs Intrepid - What's the difference?
indomitable | intrepid | Related terms |
Incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished.
* 1902 , , The Four Feathers , ch. 1:
* 1910 , , A Shepherd's Life , ch. 7:
* 2007 , , "
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.
Indomitable is a related term of intrepid.
As adjectives the difference between indomitable and intrepid
is that indomitable is incapable of being subdued, overcome, or vanquished while intrepid is fearless; bold; brave.indomitable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.
- But he was a youth of indomitable spirit, strong and agile as a wild cat.
When Betty Got Frank," Time , 31 March:
- Nobody came on to the movie camera—wrapped it in a bear hug and wrestled it to submission—like Betty Hutton. They called this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" . . . . [S]he was indomitable , unstoppable.