Main entry: boldness, hardihood, hardiness, daring
Definition: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger
Usage: the proposal required great boldness; the plan required great hardiness of heart
Definition: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
Usage: he could never refuse a dare
Main entry: audacious, venturesome, venturous, daring
Definition: disposed to venture or take risks
Usage: 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
Main entry: avant-garde, daring
Definition: radically new or original
Usage: an avant-garde theater piece