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audacious

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au⋅da⋅cious

  [aw-dey-shuhs]
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–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.
Origin:
1540–50; audaci(ty) + -ous

Related forms:
au⋅da⋅cious⋅ly, adverb
au⋅da⋅cious⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. courageous, intrepid, dauntless, venturesome. 3. unabashed, shameless; impertinent, forward.

Antonyms:
1. cowardly.
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au·da·cious   (ô-dā'shəs)   
adj.  

  1. Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold. See Synonyms at adventurous, brave.

  2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety; insolent.

  3. Spirited and original: an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas.


[French audacieux, from Old French audace, boldness, from Latin audācia, from audāx, audāc-, bold, from audēre, to dare, from avidus, avid; see avid.]
au·da'cious·ly adv., au·da'cious·ness n.
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