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audacious
[aw-dey-shuhs]
adjective
extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless.
an audacious explorer.
Antonyms: cowardlyextremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive.
an audacious vision of the city's bright future.
recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
lively; unrestrained; uninhibited.
an audacious interpretation of her role.
audacious
/ ɔːˈdeɪʃəs, ɔːˈdæsɪtɪ /
adjective
recklessly bold or daring; fearless
impudent or presumptuous
Other Word Forms
- audaciously adverb
- audaciousness noun
- unaudacious adjective
- unaudaciously adverb
- unaudaciousness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of audacious1
Word History and Origins
Origin of audacious1
Example Sentences
As if “Boogie Nights” wasn’t audacious enough, Anderson boldly followed it up with a film of naked vulnerability: an emotional weather report unafraid to risk embarrassment in examining a perpetual dark night of the soul.
The young artist, in an audacious shot across the art world bow, was engaged in a symbolic act of Oedipal homicide.
Tristan Stubbs played an audacious ramp for six which saw the ball fly out of the ground, but tried and failed a second time to be bowled by Jamie Overton for 13.
A wide and a dot ball followed after which Cox, who was left out of England's white-ball squads on Friday, played an audacious reverse scoop over third man to the seamer's final ball.
Historians have interpreted this as the era’s political satire: the magpie, audacious in the presence of a great predator, represented the common man standing up to the nobility.
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