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Definition of audacious in English: audaciousadjective ɔːˈdeɪʃəsɔˈdeɪʃəs 1Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks. a series of audacious takeovers Example sentencesExamples - But the group was rejuvenated by a statement last week that Mr Green was planning to make an audacious and unexpected bid for the company.
- An audacious attack in broad daylight on the fortified U.S. consulate after months of relative quiet.
- What a match, what a turnaround and what a scintillating performance by this brave, audacious and talented Welsh team.
- A few days ago, he delivered the most audacious speech of the presidential season.
- Artistically audacious, he penned plays, ballets, sketches, and novels.
- It is still an audacious work of art after all these years.
- Was this audacious accounting, or the kind of thing that at first glance seems like clear misrepresentation?
- In this audacious raid, thieves knocked a hole in the shop wall before making off with equipment valued at about £11,000.
- We need to be more audacious in what we say and do.
- First of all, his work made dear what an audacious venture poetry still could be.
- Troops and police have been involved in running battles with rebels who launched an audacious series of pre-dawn assaults.
- Today there's a new self-confidence: we're audacious, we're loud and we get things done.
- This would be an audacious move even for someone as bold as Schwarzenegger.
- The persistently audacious are helped along by a fearless temperament.
- With every new book she got more and more audacious, trying out new ways to surprise us.
- From this dynamic leader's audacious vision has sprung a city that is breathtaking in scale and vision.
- The audacious Wood stormed through the game and even managed an attempt at a drop goal in the second half.
- Only someone really audacious would take such a risk.
- Today we look at a bold and audacious project that's bringing a fresh approach to the way we understand the ecology of this country.
- There is the courage to pursue audacious goals, to empower and to trust your colleagues.
Synonyms bold, daring, fearless, intrepid, brave, unafraid, unflinching, courageous, valiant, valorous, heroic, dashing, plucky, daredevil, devil-may-care, death-or-glory, reckless, wild, madcap adventurous, venturesome, enterprising, dynamic, spirited, mettlesome informal game, gutsy, spunky, ballsy, have-a-go, go-ahead rare venturous, temerarious 2Showing an impudent lack of respect. he made an audacious remark Example sentencesExamples - He was a man with whom it was impossible to imagine the most audacious student venturing to take a liberty.
- He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old.
- He is audacious, showing such wilful disrespect to the past that one wonders if it ever existed!
- But Eddie's audacious comments about penalty do not stand up to scrutiny.
- It's a shocking, audacious moment - one of the few times the film makes you sit up and take notice.
- Nonetheless, the film succeeds in holding your attention, mainly to see if they can actually pull off their audacious robbery.
- He nonetheless seemed annoyed, and surprised by her audacious, nearly stupid words.
- Apparently, organized crime in France is getting to be pretty audacious.
Synonyms impudent, impertinent, insolent, presumptuous, forward, cheeky, irreverent, discourteous, disrespectful, insubordinate, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, mannerless, rude, crude, brazen, brazen-faced, brash, shameless, pert, defiant, bold, bold as brass, outrageous, shocking, out of line informal brass-necked, cocky, lippy, mouthy, fresh, flip British informal saucy, smart-arsed North American informal sassy, nervy, smart-assed archaic malapert, contumelious
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin audax, audac- 'bold' (from audere 'dare') + -ious. Today audacious means ‘willing to take surprisingly bold risks’ and ‘showing a lack of respect, impudent’, but it originally had a more direct sense of ‘bold, confident, daring’. The root is Latin audax ‘bold’.
Rhymes Athanasius, bodacious, cactaceous, capacious, carbonaceous, contumacious, Cretaceous, curvaceous, disputatious, edacious, efficacious, fallacious, farinaceous, flirtatious, foliaceous, fugacious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, Ignatius, loquacious, mendacious, mordacious, ostentatious, perspicacious, pertinacious, pugnacious, rapacious, sagacious, salacious, saponaceous, sebaceous, sequacious, setaceous, spacious, tenacious, veracious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious Definition of audacious in US English: audaciousadjectiveôˈdāSHəsɔˈdeɪʃəs 1Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks. a series of audacious takeovers Example sentencesExamples - It is still an audacious work of art after all these years.
- Was this audacious accounting, or the kind of thing that at first glance seems like clear misrepresentation?
- A few days ago, he delivered the most audacious speech of the presidential season.
- From this dynamic leader's audacious vision has sprung a city that is breathtaking in scale and vision.
- We need to be more audacious in what we say and do.
- This would be an audacious move even for someone as bold as Schwarzenegger.
- With every new book she got more and more audacious, trying out new ways to surprise us.
- The persistently audacious are helped along by a fearless temperament.
- In this audacious raid, thieves knocked a hole in the shop wall before making off with equipment valued at about £11,000.
- But the group was rejuvenated by a statement last week that Mr Green was planning to make an audacious and unexpected bid for the company.
- What a match, what a turnaround and what a scintillating performance by this brave, audacious and talented Welsh team.
- Today there's a new self-confidence: we're audacious, we're loud and we get things done.
- First of all, his work made dear what an audacious venture poetry still could be.
- Troops and police have been involved in running battles with rebels who launched an audacious series of pre-dawn assaults.
- Today we look at a bold and audacious project that's bringing a fresh approach to the way we understand the ecology of this country.
- An audacious attack in broad daylight on the fortified U.S. consulate after months of relative quiet.
- There is the courage to pursue audacious goals, to empower and to trust your colleagues.
- Only someone really audacious would take such a risk.
- Artistically audacious, he penned plays, ballets, sketches, and novels.
- The audacious Wood stormed through the game and even managed an attempt at a drop goal in the second half.
Synonyms bold, daring, fearless, intrepid, brave, unafraid, unflinching, courageous, valiant, valorous, heroic, dashing, plucky, daredevil, devil-may-care, death-or-glory, reckless, wild, madcap 2Showing an impudent lack of respect. Example sentencesExamples - Apparently, organized crime in France is getting to be pretty audacious.
- He was a man with whom it was impossible to imagine the most audacious student venturing to take a liberty.
- It's a shocking, audacious moment - one of the few times the film makes you sit up and take notice.
- He is audacious, showing such wilful disrespect to the past that one wonders if it ever existed!
- He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old.
- But Eddie's audacious comments about penalty do not stand up to scrutiny.
- He nonetheless seemed annoyed, and surprised by her audacious, nearly stupid words.
- Nonetheless, the film succeeds in holding your attention, mainly to see if they can actually pull off their audacious robbery.
Synonyms impudent, impertinent, insolent, presumptuous, forward, cheeky, irreverent, discourteous, disrespectful, insubordinate, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, mannerless, rude, crude, brazen, brazen-faced, brash, shameless, pert, defiant, bold, bold as brass, outrageous, shocking, out of line
Origin Mid 16th century: from Latin audax, audac- ‘bold’ (from audere ‘dare’) + -ious. |