Dauntlessness: Among the words here saddled with a suffix, dauntlessness is nevertheless an expressive term. Dashing, however, is a vivid adjective.ġ5. Dash: This term suggests ostentatious courage but can also imply the pretense of that quality, and might be confused with other senses of the word. Daringness is an unnecessarily extended (and therefore unnecessary) variant.ġ4. Daring: This word has a connotation of reckless disregard for personal safety. Courageousness: This is an oddly superfluous term, considering that courage is more compact and means exactly the same thing, but courageous is a useful adjective.ġ2-13. Cojones: This frequently misspelled slang word, from the Spanish word meaning “testicles,” is often used as a (slightly) less offensive alternative to its counterpart in English slang.ġ1. Chivalry: This term, from the French word chevaler (whence chevalier as a synonym for knight the Latin ancestor is caballarius, “horseman”), originally referred to the courage of a knight but later came to encompass other ideal but often unrealized qualities such as courtesy and devoutness.ġ0. Brave, too, has an alternate meaning of “excellent,” and as a noun used to refer to an American Indian warrior.ĩ. Bravery: This word, like courage itself, is an all-purpose term, though it also can mean “finery” or “ostentatious display,” perhaps from the idea of a triumphant hero’s trappings. Bottle: This British English slang term derives from the word for a container for liquid whether it alludes to the receptacle’s sturdiness or to the false courage inspired by imbibing alcohol from it is unclear.Ĩ. Boldness: This word means “daring, fearless” but can also mean “adventurous” as well as “presumptuous.”ħ. Balls: This vulgar slang for testicles suggests that a person said, in a figurative sense, to possess them is endowed with an anatomical feature equated with virility and thus with courage.Ħ. Backbone: This word, one of several on this list that figuratively refer to body parts, implies that a courageous person is unyielding or indestructible.ĥ. Audacity: This term’s meaning as a synonym for courage is tainted by another sense, that of shamelessness.Ĥ.
Adventuresomeness: Like many words on this list, this one is encumbered by the suffix -ness, but it and its nearly identical-looking and somewhat less clumsy synonym adventurousness convey a connotation of a flair for undertaking risky or dangerous enterprises.ģ. Here’s a roster of the valiant vocabulary:ġ-2. Some terms refer to determination more than bravery, but the two qualities are intertwined. ), သတ္တိကောင်း (my) ( satti.Courage comes in many varieties, often identified by distinct synonyms.
From Middle French brave, borrowed from Italian bravo, itself of uncertain origin (see there).īrave ( comparative braver, superlative bravest)
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