Intrepid meaning

Adjective: intrepid 

Pronunciation: (in’tre-pid)

Intrepid meaning: fearless; adventurous or characterized by fortitude ( fortitude= strength of mind that helps a person to face danger, pain or trouble)

Synonyms : audacious, bold, fearless, gutsy, brave, lionhearted, dauntless

Quotations: A.A.Hodge – It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Winston Churchill – Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together – what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Archibald Alexander Hodge – It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Herman Melville – All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

Barbara Allen – We recommend purchase for intrepid investors looking at the improbable size of this markdown relative to any reasonable estimate of possible future costs.

Sample sentences:

1. No one knows, what actually happened to the intrepid explorers.
2. History speaks about many intrepid warriors.
3. She’s always been a very intrepid sort of girl.
4. My grandmother was quite an intrepid woman, she was somebody I admired a great deal, who took an interest in me and encouraged me to be all I could be and get out in the world.
5. For all the dodge dealers out there, maybe this will put that dreaded intrepid thing to rest. All the dodge teams have worked hard to get better, so maybe the charger is the way we need to go.
6. I owe my nurture to evangelicalism. The evangelical wins hands down in the history of the church when it comes to nurturing a biblical literate laity. When we think of evangelism, evangelicals are the most resourceful, the most intrepid, and the most creative. But evangelicals themselves would say that they have never come to grips with what the whole mystery of the church is.
7. It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
8. They are perfect example for intrepid pioneers. They have traveled great deal and won many wars.
9. He was a skilled knight and a brave warrior. He was intrepid on the battle field.
10. He has an intrepid spirit and he strongly believes in God.

 

 

 

Credit: warrior designed by Namirus from The Noun Project (www.thenounproject.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image showing a fearless and brave warrior.

Origin of intrepid : Latin intrepidus