Daresay

Quick meaning: Daresay is a verb meaning (intransitive, archaic, originally) Chiefly in the form I daresay: to say something boldly; to affirm or assert.

Meaning

(intransitive, archaic, originally) Chiefly in the form I daresay: to say something boldly; to affirm or assert.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, by extension) Chiefly in the form I daresay: to venture to say (as the speaker believes something is likely to be the case); to think something probable; to presume.

Example Sentences

Are you going to stay up all night? I daresay that I am.

Daniel daresays he could get five thousand or more for the piece if he tried.

I daresay he's got other things to think of. I'll set all that right to-morrow.

[H]e daresays he has had conversations with Goodfellow after the sale of the property, and Goodfellow seemed satisfied that the declarant was to get payment of his money.

Word Forms

• daresays
• daresaying
• daresayed
• daresaid
• dare say
• dare-say

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include presume, suppose, assume, guess, imagine, doubt.

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