audacious

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adjective

1. invulnerable to fear or intimidation (Freq. 1)
- audacious explorers
- fearless reporters and photographers
- intrepid pioneers
• Syn:
brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
• Similar to:
bold
• Derivationally related forms:
intrepidity (for: intrepid), fearlessness (for: fearless), dauntlessness (for: dauntless), braveness (for: brave), audacity, audaciousness
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
- bald-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, bald-faced, brassy, brazen,
brazen-faced, insolent
• Similar to:
unashamed
• Derivationally related forms:
insolence (for: insolent), brazenness (for: brazen), brass (for: brassy), audacity, audaciousness
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
• Similar to:
adventurous, adventuresome
• Derivationally related forms:
venture (for: venturous), venturesomeness (for: venturesome), audacity, audaciousness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  daring, venturesome, venturous, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing