audacious

Speech parts

1. audacious - Adjective

2. audacious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Daring; spirited; adventurous.

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.

Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

daring hardy dauntless intrepid bold brave fearless brazen insolent brassy venturesome barefaced bodacious venturous trojan
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Antonyms

shy cautious craven meek sissy fig tree
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Related terms

audacity outdaciousness

Phrases with the word

less audacious audacious person more audacious

Examples

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Alphonse Karr

My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work. Oscar Niemeyer

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious. George Meredith

Fortune favors the audacious. Desiderius Erasmus

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals. Jeff Buckley

Close letter words and terms

aucupation aud aud. audacious person audaciously audaciousness