audacity

au·dac·i·ty

A0516000 (ô-dăs′ĭ-tē)n. pl. au·dac·i·ties 1. Fearless daring; intrepidity.2. Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention.3. An act or instance of intrepidity or insolent heedlessness: warned the students that any audacities committed during the graduation ceremony would be punished.

au•dac•i•ty

(ɔˈdæs ɪ ti)

n., pl. -ties. 1. boldness or daring, esp. with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions; nerve. 2. effrontery; shameless boldness. 3. Usu., audacities. audacious acts or statements. [1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	audacity - fearless daring audaciousness, temerityboldness, hardihood, hardiness, daring - the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart"
	2.	audacity - aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision"audaciousnessboldness, nerve, brass, cheek, face - impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty"effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assumption - audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

audacity

noun1. daring, nerve, courage, guts (informal), bravery, boldness, recklessness, face (informal), front, enterprise, valour, fearlessness, rashness, adventurousness, intrepidity, audaciousness, dauntlessness, venturesomeness I was shocked at the audacity of the gangsters.2. cheek, nerve, defiance, gall (informal), presumption, rudeness, chutzpah (U.S. & Canad. informal), insolence, impertinence, neck (informal), impudence, effrontery, brass neck (Brit. informal), shamelessness, sassiness (U.S. informal), forwardness, pertness, audaciousness, disrespectfulness He had the audacity to look at his watch while I was talking.Quotations
"Being tactful in audacity is knowing how far one can go too far" [Jean Cocteau Le Rappel à l'ordre]

audacity

noun1. Willingness to take risks:adventuresomeness, adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daring, daringness, venturesomeness, venturousness.2. The state or quality of being impudent or arrogantly self-confident:assumption, audaciousness, boldness, brashness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah, discourtesy, disrespect, effrontery, face, familiarity, forwardness, gall, impertinence, impudence, impudency, incivility, insolence, nerve, nerviness, overconfidence, pertness, presumptuousness, pushiness, rudeness, sassiness, sauciness.Informal: brass, crust, sauce, uppishness, uppityness.

Translations

大胆

audacious

(oːˈdeiʃəs) adjective bold and daring. an audacious plan. 大膽的，放肆的 大胆的auˈdacity (-ˈdӕsə-) noun 大膽，放肆 大胆