intrepid

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.

   Synonyms: fearless, unafraid, courageous

   • 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

• Bulgarian: храбър (bg) (hrabǎr), безстрашен (bg) (bezstrašen)
• Catalan: intrèpid (ca)
• 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) (áfovos)

  Ancient: ἄτρεστος (átrestos)

• Hungarian: rettenthetetlen (hu)
• Italian: ardito (it), coraggioso (it), intrepido (it)
• Latin: inpavidus
• Manx: neuagglit
• Maori: wehikore
• Norwegian: uforferdet
• Persian: نترس‎ (fa) (natars)
• Plautdietsch: brow
• Polish: nieustraszony (pl)
• Portuguese: intrépido
• Russian: бесстра́шный (ru) (besstrášnyj), отва́жный (ru) (otvážnyj)
• Sanskrit: वीतभी (sa) (vītabhī)
• Spanish: intrépido (es), denodado (es)
• Swedish: modig (sv), oförskräckt (sv), orädd (sv)
• Turkish: gözü pek (tr), korkusuz (tr), yılmaz (tr)

Anagrams

• pteridin