audacious
Americanadjective
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extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless.
an audacious explorer.
- Synonyms:
- venturesome, dauntless, intrepid, courageous
- Antonyms:
- cowardly
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extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive.
an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
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recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
- Synonyms:
- forward, impertinent, shameless, unabashed
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lively; unrestrained; uninhibited.
an audacious interpretation of her role.
adjective
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recklessly bold or daring; fearless
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impudent or presumptuous
Other Word Forms
- audaciously adverb
- audaciousness noun
- unaudacious adjective
- unaudaciously adverb
- unaudaciousness noun
Etymology
Origin of audacious
First recorded in 1540–50; audaci(ty) + -ous
Example Sentences
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The series boasts both monster-of-the-week camp and some of the most moving writing and audacious character arcs that have ever graced the small screen.
From Salon
"I was ambitious, audacious and a little bit of naive," will.i.am said of pursuing the project.
From Barron's
Establishing a global city and financial hub to rival Singapore or London was always an audacious undertaking.
From these narrow scraps grew “The Star of Redemption,” an audacious 1921 book conceived under fire that asks what remains of love—both human and divine—after war has marched a continent into the mud.
The six of us listen in silence as she explains the audacious plan.
From Literature
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