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intrepidity

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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CMU ARPABET: IH2 N T R EH1 P IH0 D AH0 T IY2 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

noun

Meaning 1

The quality of being intrepid; bravery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: audacity, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bravehood, braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, daring, fearlessness, grit, guts, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, mood, nerve, ovaries, pecker, pluck, spunk, steel, undauntedness, valour

Antonyms: cowardice, fearfulness, pusillanimity, cowardliness, poltroonery, chicken-heartedness, hen-heartedness

noun

Meaning 2

resolute courageousness

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dauntlessness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness

History

Etymology

Etymology tree French intrépidebor. English intrepid Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English intrepidity From intrepid + -ity.

Across languages

Translations

12 source translations are retained for this English entry.

Bulgarian: храброст (hrabrost) — bravery
Bulgarian: безстрашие (bezstrašie) — bravery
Catalan: ardidesa — bravery
Catalan: intrepidesa — bravery
Finnish: pelottomuus — bravery
French: intrépidité — bravery
French: bravoure — bravery
German: Furchtlosigkeit — bravery
Polish: nieustraszoność — bravery
Spanish: intrepidez — bravery
Spanish: demasía — bravery
Ottoman Turkish: جسورلق (cesurluk) — bravery

Word forms

Inflections and variants

intrepidities — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: none provided

Related: intrepid, intrepidness, trepidation

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hypernyms: courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness

Sources

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