intrepidly

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adverb

In an intrepid manner.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverbintrepidly (comparative more intrepidly, superlative most intrepidly)

comparative more intrepidly · superlative most intrepidly

  1. In an intrepid manner.

    STERNSMAN: […] And up front, intrepidly scouting for rocks, is my co-narrator and bowsman.

    1975 July 13, Rod Nordland, Carole Jacobs, “Travel by Canoe And Paddle, Too”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 293, number 13, page 1-H
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    There for the first time in its green life my vine came into its natural right of screening lovers. In its shade my love cast down her eyes, but intrepidly lifted her lips. Miss Caroline was still where she should have remained in the first place.

    1905, Harry Leon Wilson, The Boss of Little Arcady

    […]his willingness to let his memoirs be co-written by white authors who shared his eagerness to embellish — this yields the morass into which Mr. Tye has intrepidly waded.

    2009 June 15, Janet Maslin, “This Baseball Patriarch Could Really Pitch Himself”, in New York Times

    Synonyms: fearlessly, daringly, resolutely

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn an intrepid manner.

More synonyms by meaning

adverbwithout fear

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchintrépide
  2. Englishintrepid
  3. Englishintrepidly

From intrepid + -ly.

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Translations

Polish nieustraszenie, dzielnie
  • nieustraszenieTranslations
  • dzielnieTranslations

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Chicago

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