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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Related Words

gallant

  • Beau Brummell
  • Homeric
  • Spartan
  • admirer
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • attend
  • attentive
  • audacious
  • august
  • awesome
  • awful
  • baronial
  • beau
  • beloved
  • big
  • blade
  • bold
  • boyfriend
  • brash
  • brave
  • brazen
  • buck
  • cavalier
  • celestial
  • chivalrous
  • clotheshorse
  • colossal
  • comforted
  • considerate
  • cosmic
  • cosmical
  • courageous
  • court
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  • courtly
  • coxcomb
  • crazy
  • crush
  • dandy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • darling
  • dasher
  • dashing
  • date
  • dauntless
  • dear
  • determined
  • dignified
  • divine
  • doughty
  • dude
  • elevated
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • ennobled
  • epic
  • escort
  • exalted
  • exquisite
  • extraordinary
  • extravagant
  • fancy Dan
  • favorite
  • fearless
  • fellow
  • fire-eating
  • firm
  • flame
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • fop
  • formidable
  • game
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • glorified
  • glorious
  • go out
  • gorgeous
  • gracious
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • great
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • hairy
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
  • heavenly
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • high
  • high-minded
  • honey
  • honorable
  • hotheaded
  • imperial
  • impetuous
  • imposing
  • impressive
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inflated
  • insane
  • inspiring
  • intended
  • intrepid
  • jay
  • killer
  • kingly
  • knightly
  • lavish
  • lionhearted
  • lofty
  • lordly
  • lounge lizard
  • love
  • lover
  • lunatic
  • luxurious
  • macaroni
  • mad
  • madcap
  • magnanimous
  • magnific
  • magnificent
  • majestic
  • man
  • manful
  • marvellous
  • marvelous
  • massive
  • mettlesome
  • monstrous
  • monumental
  • moving
  • natural
  • noble
  • numinous
  • nutty
  • old man
  • operatic
  • opulent
  • overblown
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • palatial
  • palatine
  • plucky
  • polite
  • pompous
  • popinjay
  • precipitate
  • prepossessing
  • pretty boy
  • princely
  • prodigious
  • proud
  • queenly
  • quixotic
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • redoubtable
  • regal
  • remarkable
  • resolute
  • resplendent
  • romance
  • royal
  • see
  • sensational
  • significant other
  • spark
  • spirited
  • splendid
  • splendiferous
  • spunky
  • squeeze
  • stalwart
  • stately
  • steady
  • step out
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • striking
  • stupendous
  • suave
  • sublime
  • suitor
  • sumptuous
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  • swain
  • sweet
  • sweetheart
  • sweetie
  • sweetie pie
  • swell
  • take out
  • terrific
  • thoughtful
  • thoughtless
  • tremendous
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • undeterred
  • undismayed
  • unflinching
  • unswerving
  • uplifting
  • urbane
  • valentine
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venerable
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild
  • wonderful
  • wondrous
  • woo
  • wooer
  • worthy

madcap

  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
  • berserker
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • careless
  • courageous
  • cowboy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dauntless
  • devil
  • doughty
  • fearless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • frivolous
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hotdog
  • hotheaded
  • ill-advised
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • intrepid
  • lionhearted
  • lively
  • madman
  • manful
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • scatterbrained
  • showboat
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stupid
  • temerarious
  • thoughtless
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

valorous

  • Spartan
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • bold
  • brash
  • brave
  • brazen
  • chivalrous
  • comforted
  • courageous
  • crazy
  • daredevil
  • daring
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • determined
  • doughty
  • emboldened
  • encouraged
  • fearless
  • firm
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • gallant
  • game
  • gamey
  • gamy
  • greathearted
  • gritty
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardy
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heartened
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intrepid
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • manful
  • mettlesome
  • nervy
  • nutty
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reassured
  • reckless
  • resolute
  • spartan
  • spirited
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • strong
  • thoughtless
  • tough
  • unafraid
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • undeterred
  • undismayed
  • unflinching
  • unswerving
  • valiant
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

daredevil

  • adventurer
  • adventuresome
  • adventurous
  • audacious
  • berserk
  • berserker
  • blithe
  • bold
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brave
  • carefree
  • careless
  • courageous
  • cowboy
  • daring
  • dauntless
  • devil
  • devil-may-care
  • doughty
  • fearless
  • feckless
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • freewheeling
  • gallant
  • greathearted
  • gutsy
  • happy-go-lucky
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • harum-scarum
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heedless
  • hell-for-leather
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • hot dog
  • hotdog
  • hotheaded
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impulsive
  • inattentive
  • incautious
  • inconsiderate
  • intrepid
  • irresponsible
  • kamikaze
  • lionhearted
  • madcap
  • madman
  • manful
  • mindless
  • nonchalant
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • precipitate
  • rash
  • reckless
  • regardless
  • risk-taker
  • scatterbrained
  • show-off
  • showboat
  • slaphappy
  • stalwart
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stuntman
  • stuntperson
  • stuntwoman
  • temerarious
  • thoughtless
  • unconcerned
  • undauntable
  • undaunted
  • unheeding
  • unmindful
  • unthinking
  • unworried
  • valiant
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturous
  • wild

daring

  • absurd
  • accosting
  • adventuresome
  • adventuresomeness
  • adventurous
  • adventurousness
  • affronting
  • approaching
  • asinine
  • audacious
  • audaciousness
  • audacity
  • backbone
  • balmy
  • battling
  • bearding
  • bold
  • boldness
  • bottle
  • brainless
  • brash
  • brassiness
  • brassy
  • brave
  • braveness
  • bravery
  • braving
  • brazening
  • brazenness
  • breasting
  • challenging
  • cheek
  • cheeky
  • cockiness
  • cocky
  • cojones
  • combating
  • combatting
  • confronting
  • cornering
  • courage
  • courageous
  • courageousness
  • crazy
  • crusty
  • daredevil
  • daredevilry
  • daredeviltry
  • daringness
  • dashing
  • dauntless
  • dauntlessness
  • defying
  • determination
  • doughtiness
  • dumb
  • effrontery
  • emboldened
  • encountering
  • endurance
  • enterprising
  • facing
  • fearless
  • fearlessness
  • fiber
  • fighting
  • fire-eating
  • foolhardy
  • foolish
  • fortitude
  • forward
  • free-swinging
  • fronting
  • gadarene
  • gall
  • gallant
  • gallantry
  • game
  • go for broke
  • greathearted
  • greatheartedness
  • grit
  • gritty
  • gumption
  • guts
  • gutsiness
  • gutsy
  • gutty
  • half-witted
  • hardihood
  • hardy
  • harebrained
  • hasty
  • headlong
  • heart
  • heedless
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • heroism
  • hot shot
  • hotheaded
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • impetuous
  • imprudent
  • impudence
  • impudent
  • impulsive
  • incautious
  • insane
  • intestinal fortitude
  • intrepid
  • intrepidity
  • intrepidness
  • irrational
  • lionhearted
  • lunatic
  • mad
  • madcap
  • meeting
  • mettle
  • moronic
  • moxie
  • nerve
  • nerved
  • nervy
  • nutty
  • obtrusive
  • opposing
  • out on a limb
  • outbraving
  • outfacing
  • overbold
  • overconfident
  • pecker
  • perseverance
  • pluck
  • pluckiness
  • plucky
  • precipitate
  • prowess
  • rash
  • reckless
  • repelling
  • resisting
  • resolution
  • salt
  • salty
  • scatterbrained
  • silly
  • smart
  • smart-alecky
  • spirited
  • spunk
  • spunky
  • stalwart
  • stamina
  • standing
  • standing up to
  • stomach
  • stout
  • stouthearted
  • stoutness
  • stumping
  • stupid
  • swashbuckling
  • temerarious
  • temerity
  • temper
  • tenacity
  • thoughtless
  • unafraid
  • undaunted
  • unnecessary
  • unreasonable
  • valiance
  • valiant
  • valor
  • valorous
  • venturesome
  • venturesomeness
  • venturous
  • virtue
  • wacky
  • whacky
  • wild
  • withstanding
  • witless

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