Boldness: This word means “daring, fearless” but can also mean “adventurous” as well as “presumptuous.”ħ.

Balls: This vulgar slang for testicles suggests that a person said, in a figurative sense, to possess them is endowed with an anatomical feature equated with virility and thus with courage.Ħ. Backbone: This word, one of several on this list that figuratively refer to body parts, implies that a courageous person is unyielding or indestructible.ĥ. Audacity: This term’s meaning as a synonym for courage is tainted by another sense, that of shamelessness.Ĥ. Adventuresomeness: Like many words on this list, this one is encumbered by the suffix -ness, but it and its nearly identical-looking and somewhat less clumsy synonym adventurousness convey a connotation of a flair for undertaking risky or dangerous enterprises.ģ.

Here’s a roster of the valiant vocabulary:ġ-2. Some terms refer to determination more than bravery, but the two qualities are intertwined. When used in online political language it can mean 'based in fact' or the opposite of biased due to the number of people who saw it being first used seriously by the online political right and came to the conclusion that is was related to the phrase 'destroyed with facts and logic' in reference to right wing personality Ben Shapiro.Courage comes in many varieties, often identified by distinct synonyms. For that reason the word is largely used meta-ironically (without context you can't tell if it's being used ironically or sincerely as it's used in both ways) and was popularized in online political slang of conservatives and the political right before being adopted into mainstream online political slang (likely through shitposting websites or subreddits such as r/politicalcompass memes that are similar to 4chan in their meta-irony and 'edginess' but contain a wider variety of political beliefs) and eventually adopted into general online vernacular. The latter usage is the original use as coined by rapper Lil B, and the word originally took off on the meta-ironic website 4Chan with the latter meaning. The opposite of cringe, some times the opposite of biased. Especially common in online political slang. courageous and unique or not caring what others think.

A word used when you agree with something or when you want to recognize someone for being themselves, i.e.

Synonyms for brave.