intrepid adj : invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, unfearing]

English

Etymology

Latin intrepidus from in- ("not") + trepidus ("anxious, nervous")

Adjective

1. Fearless; bold; brave.

   • 2000 — Lennard Bickel, Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy

     Less than 70 years earlier, the intrepid James Cook in his ship Resolution had been the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circle.

Derived terms

• intrepidity
• intrepidness
• intrepidly

Related terms

• trepidation

Translations

See also

• fearless
• unafraid
• courageous

Intrepid can refer to:

• Chevrolet Intrepid, the International Motor Sports Association GT Championship car, which raced from 1991 to 1993
• William Stephenson, the Canadian World War II spymaster whose code name was Intrepid
• Dodge Intrepid, the automobile
• Intrepid Games, a satellite company of the computer game developer Lionhead Studios, now disbanded
• The Lunar module of the 1969 Apollo 12 lunar landing mission
• Several real and fictional ships named USS Intrepid
• Several ships named HMS Intrepid
• An American Civil War military balloon aircraft named Intrepid (balloon aircraft)
• Union of Border Worlds ship BWS Intrepid in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
• US-22 America's Cup Intrepid (yacht)
• The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in Manhattan
• Intrepid class starship (Star Trek), a fictional class of starships in Star Trek.
• Intrepid Ibex, the codename for the 8.10 (October 2008) in-development release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system
• Intrepid Travel, Australia based small group adventure company.
• Intrepid Kart, an Italian kart chassis manufacturer

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