intrepid
adj/ɪnˈtɹɛpɪd/
Etymology From French intrépide, from Latin intrepidus, from in- (“not”) + trepidus (“anxious, nervous”).
1
Fearless; bold; brave.
- Fewer than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.2000, Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy:
- Derived terms
- intrepidity, intrepidly, intrepidness, unintrepid
- Related terms
- trepidation