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audacious
adjective
1 audacious
Invulnerable to fear or intimidation:
— Audacious explorers.
synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing.
Roget 861:
courageous,
brave;
valiant,
valorous;
gallant,
intrepid;
spirited,
spiritful†;
high-spirited,
high-mettled†;
mettlesome,
plucky;
manly,
manful;
resolute;
stout,
stout-hearted;
iron-hearted,
lion-hearted;
heart of oak;
Penthesilean.
bold,
bold-spirited;
daring,
audacious;
fearless,
dauntless,
dreadless†,
aweless;
undaunted,
unappalled,
undismayed,
unawed,
unblanched,
unabashed,
unalarmed,
unflinching,
unshrinking†,
unblanching†,
unapprehensive;
confident,
self-reliant;
bold as a lion,
bold as brass.
enterprising,
adventurous;
venturous,
venturesome;
dashing,
chivalrous;
soldierly
etc.
(warlike)
722;
heroic.
fierce,
savage;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720.
strong-minded,
hardy,
doughty;
firm
etc.
(stable)
150;
determined
etc.
(resolved)
604;
dogged,
indomitable
etc.
(persevering)
604.1.
up to,
up to the scratch;
upon one's mettle;
reassured
etc.
v.;
unfeared†,
undreaded†.
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2 audacious
Unrestrained by convention or propriety:
— An audacious trick to pull.
synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent.
Roget 885:
insolent,
haughty,
arrogant,
imperious,
magisterial,
dictatorial,
arbitrary;
high-handed,
high and mighty;
contumelious,
supercilious,
overbearing,
intolerant,
domineering,
overweening,
high-flown.
flippant,
pert,
fresh [U.S.],
cavalier,
saucy,
forward,
impertinent,
malapert.
precocious,
assuming,
would-be,
bumptious.
bluff;
brazen,
shameless,
aweless,
unblushing†,
unabashed;
brazen,
boldfaced-,
barefaced-,
brazen-faced;
dead to shame,
lost to shame.
impudent,
audacious,
presumptuous,
free and easy,
devil-may-care,
rollicking;
jaunty,
janty†;
roistering,
blustering,
hectoring,
swaggering,
vaporing;
thrasonic,
fire eating,
full of sound and fury"
[Macbeth].
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3 audacious
Disposed to venture or take risks:
— Audacious visions of the total conquest of space.
— An audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas.
synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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