audacious
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ʃəs adjective
1.
extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: an audacious explorer.
2.
extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive: an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
3.
recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
4.
lively; unrestrained; uninhibited: an audacious interpretation of her role.
Related forms
au·da·cious·ly, adverb
au·da·cious·ness, noun
un·au·da·cious, adjective
un·au·da·cious·ly, adverb
un·au·da·cious·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. courageous, intrepid, dauntless, venturesome. 3. unabashed, shameless; impertinent, forward.
1. courageous, intrepid, dauntless, venturesome. 3. unabashed, shameless; impertinent, forward.
Antonyms
1. cowardly.
1. cowardly.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | recklessly bold or daring; fearless |
| 2. | impudent or presumptuous |
| [C16: from Latin audāx bold, from audēre to dare] | |
| au'daciously | |
| —adv | |
| au'daciousness | |
| —n | |
| audacity | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
audacious
1540s, "confident, intrepid," from L. audacia "daring, boldness, courage," from audax "bold, daring," from audere "to dare." Bad sense of "shameless" is attested from 1590s. L. audax also had a good and a bad sense and could mean "audacious, rash, foolhardy."
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Example sentences
The audacious move was met with silence.
They bespeak an audacious will to keep structural schemes and their execution mutually independent.
Commanders were audacious, knowing they could depend on their well-disciplined troops.
And then he went and made something that was every bit as audacious and every bit as crazy and every bit as singular.
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