valiant

The word “valiant” has 2 syllables: val-iant

It's pronounced as /ˈvæliənt/


What is synonym and antonym for valiant?

In the thesaurus, “valiant” has 98 synonyms and 78 antonyms.

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


Synonyms for valiant

  • Spartan
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • assertive
  • audacious
  • bold
  • brash
  • brave
  • brazen
  • chivalrous
  • comforted
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • determined
  • doughty
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • fearless
  • fire-eating
  • firm
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • gallant
  • game
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • grand
  • great
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
  • heedless
  • hero
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • high-spirited
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • indomitable
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • lion-hearted
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • magnanimous
  • manful
  • mettlesome
  • nervy
  • noble
  • nutty
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • plucky
  • powerful
  • precipitate
  • puissant
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • redoubtable
  • resolute
  • self-reliant
  • spirited
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • steadfast
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • strong-willed
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • undeterred
  • undismayed
  • unflinching
  • unswerving
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vigorous
  • wild
  • worthy

Antonyms for valiant

  • afraid
  • agitated
  • anxious
  • appalled
  • apprehensive
  • careful
  • cautious
  • chicken
  • chicken-livered
  • chickenhearted
  • concerned
  • coward
  • cowardly
  • craven
  • cream puff
  • cur
  • dastard
  • dastardly
  • defeatist
  • diffident
  • disconcerted
  • dismayed
  • disquieted
  • disturbed
  • fainthearted
  • fearful
  • frightened
  • funk
  • gutless
  • heedful
  • horrified
  • lily-livered
  • meek
  • milk-livered
  • milquetoast
  • mousey
  • mousy
  • nerveless
  • nervous
  • panic-stricken
  • panicked
  • perturbed
  • poltroon
  • poor-spirited
  • prudent
  • pushover
  • pusillanimous
  • pussy
  • quitter
  • recreant
  • scared
  • scary
  • shocked
  • shy
  • sissy
  • skittish
  • spineless
  • spiritless
  • spooked
  • startled
  • terrified
  • terrorized
  • timid
  • timorous
  • unadventurous
  • uncourageous
  • ungallant
  • unheroic
  • unmanly
  • unnerved
  • upset
  • weak
  • weakhearted
  • weakling
  • wimp
  • wimpy
  • worried
  • yellow

Meanings of valiant

  • noun
    1. A person who acts with valor, showing hero-like characteristics in the midst of danger.
  • adjective
    1. Showing courage or determination; brave, heroic.

Example Sentences

  • The knight embarked on a valiant quest to rescue the captured princess.
  • Despite the odds, the team put up a valiant effort in the championship game.
  • The firefighter made a valiant attempt to save the family trapped in the burning building.
  • The historical hero's valiant deeds were immortalized in epic tales.
  • The soldier received a medal for his valiant service on the front lines.

On this page you'll find 176 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to valiant, such as: Spartan, adventuresome, adventurous, afraid, agitated, anxious, appalled.

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daredevil

  • adventurer
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
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  • blithe
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
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  • courageous
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  • daring
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  • gallant
  • greathearted
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  • lionhearted
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  • thoughtless
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  • unworried
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

daring

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  • irrational
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  • lunatic
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  • salt
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  • stumping
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  • temerarious
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  • temper
  • tenacity
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
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  • valiance
  • valiant
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  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturesomeness
  • venturous
  • virtue
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • withstanding
  • witless

daringly

  • abruptly
  • adventurously
  • alarmingly
  • audaciously
  • boldly
  • brashly
  • bravely
  • brazenly
  • carelessly
  • chivalrously
  • courageously
  • crazily
  • critically
  • dauntlessly
  • desperately
  • determinedly
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  • eagerly
  • excitedly
  • expeditiously
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  • foolhardily
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  • harmfully
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  • heroically
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  • hurriedly
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  • indomitably
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  • rashly
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  • self-confidently
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  • thoughtlessly
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  • unsafely
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  • valiantly
  • valorously
  • venturesomely
  • venturously
  • wildly

dashing

  • absurd
  • accelerating
  • adventuresome
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  • elegant
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  • firing
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  • flitting
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  • foolhardy
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  • free-swinging
  • gadarene
  • gallant
  • galloping
  • gay
  • getting a move on
  • getting down
  • greathearted
  • gritty
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  • half-witted
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  • haring
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  • heroic
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  • lionhearted
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  • plucky
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  • stepping on it
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  • stout
  • stouthearted
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  • swank
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  • thoughtless
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  • troubling
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • undoing
  • unhinging
  • unnecessary
  • unnerving
  • unreasonable
  • unsettling
  • upsetting
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • vivacious
  • wacky
  • washing
  • watering
  • weighing down
  • whacky
  • whirling
  • whisking
  • whizzing
  • wild
  • witless
  • worrying
  • zipping
  • zooming

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