Definition of audacious Audacious

/ɑdejˈʃʌs/ - [adeyshus] - au•da•cious

We found 13 definitions of audacious from 5 different sources.

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What does audacious mean?

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WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

audacious - invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
  brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
  bold fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
audacious - 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"
  daring, venturesome, venturous
  adventuresome, adventurous willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
audacious - 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
  barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
  unashamed used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • audacious (a.)
    Daring; spirited; adventurous.
  • audacious (a.)
    Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.
  • audacious (a.)
    Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • audacious
    Fearlessly, often recklessly daring.
  • audacious
    Not being daunted or intimidated.
  • audacious
    Disposed to venture or take risks.
  • audacious
    Unrestrained by convention or propriety.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • audacious
    aw-dā′shus, adj. daring: bold: impudent.—adv. Audā′ciously.—ns. Audā′ciousness, Audacity (aw-das′i-ti). [Fr. audacieux—L. audaxaudēre, to dare.]

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