dares

The word “dares” has 1 syllable: dares

It's pronounced as /dɛrz/


What is synonym and antonym for dares?

In the thesaurus, “dares” has 27 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dares along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dares

  • accosts
  • affronts
  • approaches
  • battles
  • beards
  • braves
  • brazens
  • breasts
  • challenges
  • combats
  • confronts
  • corners
  • defies
  • encounters
  • faces
  • fights
  • fronts
  • meets
  • opposes
  • outbraves
  • outfaces
  • repels
  • resists
  • stands
  • stands up to
  • stumps
  • withstands

Antonyms for dares

  • avoids
  • dodges
  • ducks
  • eludes
  • escapes
  • eschews
  • evades
  • funks
  • shakes
  • shirks
  • shuns
  • sidesteps

Meanings of dares

  • noun
    1. A challenge to prove courage.
    2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
    3. Defiance; challenge.
    4. A small fish, the dace.
  • verb
    1. To have enough courage (to do something).
    2. To defy or challenge (someone to do something).
    3. To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to.
    4. To terrify; to daunt.
    5. To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
    6. To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
    7. To lie or crouch down in fear.

Example Sentences

  • Dares to venture into the unknown often lead to remarkable discoveries.
  • Despite the risks, he always dares to challenge himself and explore new opportunities.
  • She never backs down from a challenge and always dares to dream big.
  • The leader dares to confront difficult truths and inspire change within the community.
  • In the face of adversity, she dares to persevere and overcome obstacles with resilience.

On this page you'll find 39 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dares, such as: accosts, affronts, approaches, avoids, battles, beards, braves.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

faces

  • Potemkin villages
  • abide
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  • affectations
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  • air
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  • apparels
  • appearance
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  • audacity
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  • demeanors
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  • foreheads
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  • go up against
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  • grimace
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  • growls
  • guise
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  • hominids
  • homos
  • honor
  • human beings
  • humanoids
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  • image
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  • impostures
  • impressions
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  • incloses
  • individuals
  • insinuations
  • invests
  • kisser
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  • laps
  • level
  • light
  • likenesses
  • line
  • lineaments
  • lives
  • look
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  • lours
  • lowers
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
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  • makeup
  • manners
  • mantles
  • map
  • margins
  • mask
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  • meet
  • meets
  • men
  • miens
  • mortals
  • moues
  • mouths
  • mows
  • mug
  • mugs
  • names
  • neighbors
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • opposes
  • outbraves
  • outfaces
  • outsides
  • outwards
  • overlay
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  • overlook
  • overlooks
  • overspreads
  • paint
  • pans
  • parties
  • patinae
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  • people
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  • personalities
  • physiognomies
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  • plaster
  • polish
  • poses
  • pout
  • pouts
  • presences
  • presentation
  • prestige
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  • profile
  • pusses
  • redecorate
  • refinish
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  • repels
  • representations
  • reputation
  • resemblances
  • resist
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  • rictuses
  • rims
  • risk
  • rivals
  • robes
  • run into
  • scoffs
  • scouts
  • scowl
  • scowls
  • seeming
  • seemings
  • self-respect
  • selves
  • semblance
  • semblances
  • shapes
  • sheathe
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  • sheaths
  • shells
  • shingle
  • show
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  • shows
  • shrouds
  • side
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  • silhouette
  • simpers
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  • skin
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  • skirts
  • slobs
  • smiles
  • smirk
  • smirks
  • smooth
  • snarls
  • sneers
  • snoots
  • social position
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • square off
  • squinches
  • stand
  • standing
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  • stands up to
  • stare
  • stares
  • stiffs
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestions
  • surface
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  • swallow
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  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • takes on
  • tell off
  • things
  • tolerate
  • top
  • tops
  • touches
  • veil
  • veils
  • veneer
  • veneers
  • venture
  • visage
  • visages
  • watch
  • wights
  • winces
  • withstand
  • withstands
  • wraps

objects

  • accessaries
  • accessories
  • accompaniments
  • aims
  • ambitions
  • articles
  • aspirations
  • balks
  • baubles
  • beefs
  • being
  • beings
  • bellyaches
  • bitches
  • bleats
  • bodies
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • carps
  • caterwauls
  • cavils
  • censures
  • challenges
  • commodities
  • complains
  • conflicts
  • crabs
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • curios
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • demonstrates
  • demurs
  • denounces
  • designs
  • desires
  • destinations
  • dinguses
  • disobeys
  • disputes
  • doohickeys
  • doohickies
  • dreams
  • effects
  • ends
  • entities
  • equipment
  • excepts
  • existents
  • expostulates
  • fights
  • fusses
  • gags
  • gauds
  • gear
  • geegaws
  • gewgaws
  • goals
  • goods
  • grails
  • gripes
  • grizzles
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • grumps
  • hassles
  • hollers
  • holy grails
  • hopes
  • ideals
  • ideas
  • impedimenta
  • individual
  • individualities
  • individuals
  • integers
  • intentions
  • intents
  • items
  • junk
  • keens
  • kicks
  • kit
  • knickknacks
  • luggage
  • marks
  • materials
  • matters
  • maunders
  • meanings
  • minds
  • moans
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • nags
  • nicknacks
  • nirvanas
  • novelties
  • objectives
  • ornamentals
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  • pieces
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  • plots
  • points
  • possessions
  • pretensions
  • projects
  • protests
  • purposes
  • quantities
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • realities
  • rebels
  • repines
  • schemes
  • screams
  • spangles
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • sticks
  • stuff
  • subjects
  • substance
  • substances
  • tackle
  • takes exception
  • takes issue
  • targets
  • termini
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  • thingamabobs
  • thingamajigs
  • things
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  • thingummies
  • tokens
  • trappings
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  • wails
  • wares
  • whatchamacallits
  • whatnots
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • wishes
  • withstands
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls

quarrels

  • affrays
  • altercates
  • altercations
  • argle-bargles
  • argues
  • argufies
  • arguments
  • argy-bargies
  • attacks
  • bandies words
  • battle royales
  • battle royals
  • battles royal
  • battles royale
  • bickers
  • brabbles
  • brawls
  • butts heads
  • catfights
  • cavils
  • challenges
  • clashes
  • considers
  • contends
  • contentions
  • contests
  • contretemps
  • controversies
  • controverts
  • cross fires
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • differences
  • disagreements
  • discusses
  • disputations
  • disputes
  • dissensions
  • dissentions
  • donnybrooks
  • falling-outs
  • fallings-out
  • falls out
  • feuds
  • fights
  • fisticuffs
  • fracas
  • fracases
  • frays
  • free-for-alls
  • fusses
  • hassles
  • imbroglios
  • jars
  • kicks
  • kickups
  • locks horns
  • logomachies
  • melees
  • misunderstandings
  • mixes it up
  • nitpicks
  • objections
  • objects
  • protestations
  • protests
  • quibbles
  • rhubarbs
  • rows
  • run-ins
  • scraps
  • set-tos
  • skirmishes
  • spats
  • squabbles
  • tangles
  • tiffs
  • tussles
  • vendettas
  • wrangles

jars

  • altercates
  • amazements
  • argues
  • argufies
  • bandies words
  • bashings
  • batterings
  • battles
  • bickers
  • blasts
  • bleats
  • blows
  • bolts from the blue
  • bolts out of the blue
  • bombshells
  • brabbles
  • brawls
  • brays
  • buffets
  • bumps
  • butts heads
  • cavils
  • chafes
  • challenges
  • clangors
  • clangs
  • clanks
  • clashes
  • collides
  • collisions
  • combats
  • concussions
  • conflicts
  • considers
  • contacts
  • contends
  • contests
  • controverts
  • crashes
  • creaks
  • croaks
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • differs
  • disaccords
  • disagrees
  • discords
  • discusses
  • disputes
  • dissents
  • encounters
  • engages
  • eye-openers
  • falls out
  • fights
  • fillips
  • fusses
  • galls
  • gargles
  • grates
  • grinds
  • hassles
  • hits
  • impacts
  • impingements
  • jangles
  • jaw-droppers
  • jolts
  • jounces
  • kickers
  • kicks
  • knocks
  • lickings
  • locks horns
  • marvels
  • meetings
  • mixes it up
  • nitpicks
  • objects
  • protests
  • punches
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • raps
  • rasps
  • revelations
  • rows
  • scrapes
  • scraps
  • scratches
  • screeches
  • scuffs
  • shockers
  • shocks
  • slams
  • slaps
  • smashes
  • spats
  • squabbles
  • strikes
  • stunners
  • surprises
  • surprizes
  • tangles
  • thrashings
  • thumps
  • thunderclaps
  • tiffs
  • touches
  • twists
  • wallops
  • wonders
  • wrangles
  • wrinkles

quibbles

  • altercates
  • argues
  • argufies
  • bandies words
  • beefs
  • bellyaches
  • bickers
  • bitches
  • bleats
  • brabbles
  • brawls
  • butts heads
  • carps
  • cavils
  • challenges
  • clashes
  • complains
  • complaints
  • considers
  • contends
  • contests
  • controverts
  • crabs
  • criticizes
  • croaks
  • dares
  • debates
  • defies
  • demurs
  • discusses
  • disputes
  • expostulations
  • falls out
  • faults
  • fights
  • fusses
  • grievances
  • gripes
  • grouches
  • grouses
  • growls
  • grumbles
  • hassles
  • hollers
  • jars
  • kicks
  • kvetches
  • laments
  • locks horns
  • misereres
  • mixes it up
  • moans
  • murmurs
  • mutters
  • niggles
  • nitpicks
  • objections
  • objects
  • plaints
  • protests
  • quarrels
  • remonstrances
  • rows
  • scraps
  • spats
  • splits hairs
  • squabbles
  • squawks
  • squeals
  • stinks
  • tangles
  • tiffs
  • wails
  • whimpers
  • whines
  • whinges
  • wrangles
  • yammers
  • yaups
  • yawps
  • yowls

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