intrepid

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English

Etymology

From French intrépide, from Latin intrepidus, from in- (“not”) + trepidus (“anxious, nervous”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɹɛpɪd/
• Hyphenation: in‧trepid

Adjective

intrepid (comparative more intrepid, superlative most intrepid)

1. Fearless; bold; brave.

   • 2000 — Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy

     Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

Derived terms

• intrepidity
• intrepidness
• intrepidly

Related terms

• trepidation

Translations

fearless

• Catalan: intrèpid
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勇敢 (zh), 无畏 (zh)

• Chukchi: айыԓгыкыԓьэн (ajyḷgykyḷʹėn)
• Czech: nebojácný, odvážný (cs)
• Dutch: onversaagd (nl), onvervaard (nl), onbevreesd (nl)
• Esperanto: maltima
• Estonian: kartmatu, kohkumatu, julge (et), vapper
• Finnish: peloton (fi)
• French: intrépide (fr)
• German: unerschrocken (de), furchtlos (de), mutig (de)
• Greek: ατρόμητος (el) (atrómitos), άφοβος (el) m (áfovos)

  Ancient: ἄτρεστος (átrestos)

• Italian: ardito (it), coraggioso (it), intrepido (it)
• Latin: inpavidus
• Maori: wehikore
• Norwegian: uforferdet
• Polish: nieustraszony (pl)
• Portuguese: intrépido m
• Russian: бесстра́шный (ru) (besstrášnyj), отва́жный (ru) (otvážnyj)
• Spanish: intrépido (es), denodado (es)
• Swedish: modig (sv), oförskräckt (sv), orädd (sv)
• Turkish: gözü pek (tr), korkusuz (tr), yılmaz (tr)

See also

• fearless
• unafraid
• courageous

References

• “intrepid” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Anagrams

• pteridin