Word Meanings - VALOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VALOROUS)

• Daring
• Adventurous
• dashing
• bold
• courageous
• venturesome
• dauntless
• foolhardy
• fearless
• brave
• intrepid
• valorous
• Valiant
• Intrepid
• heroic
• redoubtable
• stout-hearted
• gallant

Related words: (words related to VALOROUS)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• DASHER
  1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade.
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• DASH
  1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon. 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision;
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DASHY
  Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• DARER
  One who dares or defies.
• DARKLING
  In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY
• HEBDOMADARY
  A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.