bodacious

bo·da·cious

B0361400 (bō-dā′shəs)adj.1. Remarkable; impressive: "a bodacious amount of smoke" (Springfield MA Morning Union).2. Sexually attractive. Used chiefly of women.3. Audacious; gutsy: "Both major studios and small, scruffy independents ... started turning out cheaply made, bodacious, and hyperreal action pictures" (Martha Southgate).

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[Probably from dialectal boldacious, blend of bold and audacious.]

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bo·da′cious·ly adv.

bodacious

(bəʊˈdeɪʃəs) adjslang chiefly US impressive or remarkable; excellent[C19: from English dialect; blend of bold + audacious]

bo•da•cious

(boʊˈdeɪ ʃəs)

adj. Southern U.S. 1. blatant: a bodacious gossip. 2. remarkable: a bodacious story. 3. audacious; brazen. [1835–45; b. bold and audacious] bo•da′cious•ly, adv.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bodacious - incorrigible; "a bodacious gossip"colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speechunmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie"
	2.	bodacious - 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 Russellbrazen, brazen-faced, insolent, audacious, bald-faced, barefaced, brassyunashamed - used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame

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