Audacious \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.
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As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
Audacious. --Milton.
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2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
Audacious traitor." --Shak. " Such audacious
neighborhood." --Milton.
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3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious
cruelty." "Audacious prate." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
audacious
adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers";
"fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
pioneers" [syn: brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid,
unfearing]
2: 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 [syn: barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced,
brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
3: 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" [syn: daring, venturesome, venturous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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