bold
/bəʊld
/- Andreu, one of the world's leading experts in airport design, has been praised for the exceptional engineering which allows his bold ideas to come to life.
- To say it is a bold idea is not to say that it's new.
- His job has been to head a congregation whose assignment is not to generate new and bold ideas, but to preserve the integrity of the tradition of the church.
Synonyms
- No man's Mercedes is safe; the thieves are so bold they'll make off with your vintage automobile with a forklift.
- With a shrug, Lenore plopped down on the tiny chair of her table, crossing her legs in a bold manner.
- I believe that such feelings will not be considered bold presumption but an act of love.
- Like a bold boy at a children's party, he still insists on being the centre of attention even though it's not his birthday.
- Utzon's interior design was characterised by bold colours and fantastic shapes.
- There is less intricacy of detail, and the bold lines and strong colours relate them to North Indian folk art.
- They are like cartoons, with their bold lines, bright colours and flat shapes.
Synonyms
- As if to emphasise the point, the report prints the comment in bold type.
- I'd like the following printed on all scorecards in bold type.
- Paragraph 3 has a footnote at the end in bold type.
Synonyms
- Google will display the search keywords in bold in your ad if they're present.
- The questions will then pertain to that picture and the answers will be listed in bold under the questions.
- After I scribble ‘The Dimensional Traveler’ in bold on a blank page, I pick up another blank page.
Phrases
be (or make) so bold (as to do something)
(as) bold as brass
bold stroke
Origin
Old English bald, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boud and to German bald 'soon'.
brave from Late Middle English:
In Old English people with all the attributes of bravery were ‘bold’. In the Middle Ages they could also be ‘courageous’, but it was not until the late 15th century that they became brave. The word came through French from Italian or Spanish bravo and goes back to Latin barbarus, the source of barbarian. Scots braw (late 16th century) ‘fine’, bravado (mid 16th century), bravo (mid 18th century), and bravura (mid 18th century) all go back to the same source. The phrase brave new world refers to a new or hopeful period of history brought about by major changes in society—usually implying that the changes are in fact undesirable. It is taken from the title of a satirical novel by Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), published in 1932. Huxley himself borrowed the phrase from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Miranda has grown up isolated on an island with her magician father Prospero, the monster Caliban, and some spirits. On first encountering some other humans she exclaims: ‘How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world / That has such people in it!’