Daredevil

Quick meaning: Daredevil is a noun meaning A person who engages in very risky behavior, especially one who is motivated by a craving for excitement or attention.

Meaning

A person who engages in very risky behavior, especially one who is motivated by a craving for excitement or attention.

More Meanings

1. Recklessly bold; adventurous.
2. (intransitive) To behave in a reckless, adventurous, or physically risky manner.

Example Sentences

Even as a youngster, Steven was a bit of a daredevil riding up homemade wooden ramps on his BMX.

The climactic scene of “Rebel without a Cause” is the group of very daredevil teens playing chicken.

Not only do they glide gracefully with burdens on their heads, they bend to pick money that has been flung at them; dash across roads with cars zooming by and the most daredevil do all this with a child strapped to their back.

Word Forms

• daredevils
• daredeviling
• daredevilling
• daredeviled
• daredevilled

Synonyms for daredevil

Depending on context, synonyms include adventurer, thrill-seeker, bold, lunatic, temerarious, harum-scarum.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include temerarious, brash, madcap, harum-scarum, hothead, lunatic.

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