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English Dictionary: audacious |
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2 results for audacious |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- audacious
- adj
- invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious
explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
Synonym(s): audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
- 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; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
Synonym(s): audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
- 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"
Synonym(s): audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious.
--Milton.
2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. [bd]
Audacious traitor.[b8] --Shak. [bd] Such audacious
neighborhood.[b8] --Milton.
3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
contempt of law, morality, or decorum. [bd]Audacious
cruelty.[b8] [bd]Audacious prate.[b8] --Shak.
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