audacious
audacious
Definition
au·da·cious (ô dā′s̸həs)
adjective
- bold or daring; fearless
- not restrained by a sense of shame or propriety; rudely bold; brazen
Etymology: < L audacia, audacity < audax (gen. audacis), bold < audere, to dare, be bold
au·da′·ciously adverb
au·da′·cious·ness noun
audacious
Synonyms
audacious
modif.
audacious
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- bid: Two audacious bids were made for your wallet last week.
- debut: It's that rare thing, a second feature that actually improves on the audacious debut that preceded it.
- attempt: The film is an audacious attempt to portray an ordinary man dealing with extraordinary emotions.
- chip: He left his marker for dead before trying an audacious chip on the run with his left peg.
- move: Inspired by the results from the practice green, Hans was to astound everyone with his next audacious move.
- attack: May we never forget what happened when the Japanese launched an audacious sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Modifying Another Word
- so: Kate will be having words with the Poll Gremlins before we try something so audacious again.
- typically: In a typically audacious action, Rampage struck at a Gold convoy passing Planet New London.
- too: Perhaps the very idea was too audacious to succeed?
- technically: The feature-length ' Tale of the Fox ' , Starewicz ' best-known work, is a technically audacious, gleefully wicked medieval animal fable.
- even: Rather, our prayers can be confident, daring, even audacious.
- truly: I have never been stung myself but some of the sh*t they try and pull on you is truly audacious.
Used with adjective complement
- seem: I particularly loved the fact that she appropriated the voices of men when she felt like it - that seemed wonderfully audacious somehow.
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