Synonyms of gutsy

gutsy

adjective

ˈgət-sē 

1

as in adventurous

inclined or willing to take risks

a gutsy coach willing to let her team improvise on the court

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adventurous
• courageous
• daring
• brave
• fearless
• bold
• hardy
• audacious
• enterprising
• venturous
• adventuresome
• heroic
• venturesome
• nervy
• reckless
• impulsive
• nerved
• dashing
• valiant
• gallant
• heroical
• emboldened
• foolish
• free-swinging
• spirited
• intrepid
• impetuous
• dauntless
• stupid
• foolhardy
• spunky
• plucky
• unafraid
• undaunted
• imprudent
• daredevil
• valorous
• brash
• hotheaded
• thoughtless
• wild
• madcap
• overconfident
• dumb
• silly
• incautious
• rash
• gritty
• stalwart
• heedless
• hasty
• mad
• stouthearted
• stout
• lionhearted
• unnecessary
• nutty
• idiotic
• absurd
• swashbuckling
• wacky
• insane
• unreasonable
• crazy
• lunatic
• whacky
• headlong
• irrational
• asinine
• overbold
• moronic
• scatterbrained
• harebrained
• witless
• brainless
• greathearted
• precipitate
• balmy
• idiotical
• gadarene
• half-witted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• timid
• careful
• cautious
• unadventurous
• coward
• cowardly
• shy
• pusillanimous
• timorous
• craven
• prudent
• wary
• unenterprising
• milky
• afraid
• frightened
• overcautious
• fearful
• heedful
• terrified
• startled
• reasonable
• scared
• wise
• sensible
• shocked
• lily-livered
• spooked
• chickenhearted
• alarmed
• horrified
• sound
• sane
• rational
• cool
• calm
• unnerved
• poltroon
• levelheaded
• milk-livered
• overcareful
• upset
• affrighted
• fainthearted
• sage
• concerned
• worried
• dismayed
• appalled
• terrorized

2

as in courageous

feeling or displaying no fear by temperament

they were gutsy enough to attempt a rescue on their own

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Examples of gutsy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Partly, that’s thanks to gutsy executives like Allain, one of the few Black creatives at any studio back in the late 1980s. —Stacey Wilson Hunt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024

Lee anchored their bars lineup with a gutsy routine that expertly juggled risk and reward, earning a 14.566. —Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 30 July 2024

The Orioles made several defensive blunders and their bats weren’t much better to spoil a gutsy performance from Kremer in the club’s 9-4 loss to the Padres. —Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024

While James and company will head to France undefeated, they were pushed to the limit by a gutsy German team just two days after the Americans narrowly avoided a stunning upset against South Sudan. —Ben Golliver, Washington Post, 22 July 2024