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Audacious

Audacious Meaning & Definition
Audacious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Audacious?

[adj] disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit"
[adj] unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
[adj] invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Audacious: adventuresome | adventurous | barefaced | bodacious | bold | bold-faced | brassy | brave | brazen | brazen-faced | daring | dauntless | fearless | insolent | intrepid | unashamed | unfearing | venturesome | venturous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Audacious: adventuresome | adventurous | arrogant | bold | brash | brassy | brave | brazen | bumptious | careless | challenging | cheeky | cocky | cold | confident | contemptuous | contumelious | cool | courageous | daredevil | daring | dauntless | death-defying | defiant | defying | derisive | devil-may-care | disdainful | disregardful | disrespectful | doughty | easy | emancipated | enterprising | familiar | fearless | fire-eating | foolhardy | forward | free | greatly daring | harebrained | heedless | hubristic | impertinent | impudent | independent | insolent | insulting | intrepid | madbrain | madbrained | madcap | mettlesome | obtrusive | overbold | overpresumptuous | overweening | pert | presuming | presumptuous | procacious | pushy | rash | reckless | regardless of consequences | relaxed | rude | saucy | self-absorbed | self-centered | selfish | shameless | temerarious | thoughtless | unabashed | unafraid | uncurbed | undaunted | ungoverned | unhampered | uninhibited | unrestrained | untrammeled | uppish | uppity | valiant | valorous | venturesome | venturous | wild | wild-ass

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Audacious In Webster's Dictionary

\Au*da"cious\, a. [F. audacieux, as if fr. LL. audaciosus (not found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax, -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.] 1. Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. --Milton. 2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. `` Audacious traitor.'' --Shak. `` Such audacious neighborhood.'' --Milton. 3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. ``Audacious cruelty.'' ``Audacious prate.'' --Shak.

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