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 way Wood sees it, it might be an audacious vision, but why not?
From Los Angeles Times
Yet Hall went close to a second equaliser after the interval, curling narrowly wide with an audacious effort that drew an admiring thumbs-up from Donnarumma.
From Barron's
But no country has pushed the balloon frontier further than Ukraine, which is using them to execute audacious strikes deep inside Russia, as well as for reconnaissance and transportation, and as decoys.
“It’s very exposing, especially for the actors,” Fennell says of making an audacious film like this.
From Los Angeles Times
What makes the act of flinging himself upside down so audacious is that it’s entirely gratuitous.
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