daring

Adjective

• radically new or original
  • an avant-garde theater piece
    

• disposed to venture or take risks
  • audacious visions of the total conquest of space
    
  • an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
    
  • the most daring of contemporary fiction writers
    
  • a venturesome investor
    
  • a venturous spirit
    

Noun

• the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
  • the proposal required great boldness
    
  • the plan required great hardiness of heart
    

• a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
  • he could never refuse a dare
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  avant-garde , audacious , venturesome , venturous , boldness , hardiness , hardihood , dare
• Antonyms: 
  timidity , timorousness