Audacious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Audacious \Au*da"cious\, a. [F. audacieux, as if fr. LL.
     audaciosus (not found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax,
     -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.]
     1. Daring; spirited; adventurous.
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              As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
              Audacious.                            --Milton.
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     2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
        bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
        Audacious traitor." --Shak. " Such audacious
        neighborhood." --Milton.
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     3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
        contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious
        cruelty." "Audacious prate." --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  audacious
       adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers";
              "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
              pioneers" [syn: {brave}, {dauntless}, {fearless}, {intrepid},
               {unfearing}]
       2: 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern
          world with its quick material successes and insolent
          belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"-
          Bertrand Russell [syn: {barefaced}, {bodacious}, {bold-faced},
           {brassy}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}]
       3: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the
          total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of
          two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary
          fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous
          spirit" [syn: {daring}, {venturesome}, {venturous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "audacious":
     adventuresome, adventurous, arrogant, bold, brash, brassy, brave,
     brazen, bumptious, careless, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold,
     confident, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, courageous, daredevil,
     daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive,
     devil-may-care, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, doughty,
     easy, emancipated, enterprising, familiar, fearless, fire-eating,
     foolhardy, forward, free, greatly daring, harebrained, heedless,
     hubristic, impertinent, impudent, independent, insolent, insulting,
     intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, mettlesome, obtrusive,
     overbold, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, presuming,
     presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, reckless,
     regardless of consequences, relaxed, rude, saucy, self-absorbed,
     self-centered, selfish, shameless, temerarious, thoughtless,
     unabashed, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, unhampered,
     uninhibited, unrestrained, untrammeled, uppish, uppity, valiant,
     valorous, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass