Definitions for audacious
ɔˈdeɪ ʃəsau·da·cious

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearingadjective

   invulnerable to fear or intimidation

   "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

2. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective

   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

3. audacious, daring, venturesome, venturousadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. audaciousadjective

   Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

2. audaciousadjective

   Impudent.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. AUDACIOUSadjective

   Bold; impudent; daring; always in a bad sense.

   Etymology: audacieux, Fr. audax, Lat.

   Such is thy audacious wickedness,
   Thy leud, pestif’rous, and dissentious pranks. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   Till Jove, no longer patient, took his time
   T’ avenge with thunder their audacious crime. Dryden.

   Young students, by a constant habit of disputing, grow impudent and audacious, proud and disdainful. Isaac Watts, Improvement of the Mind.

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1. audacious

   Audacious is an adjective that characterizes someone as being bold, daring, fearless, or recklessly brave. It can also describe actions or behaviors that are surprising, shocking, or innovative due to their boldness or disregard for normal constraints.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Audaciousadjective

   daring; spirited; adventurous

2. Audaciousadjective

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

3. Audaciousadjective

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

4. Etymology: [F. audacieux, as if fr. LL. audaciosus (not found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax, -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Audacious

   aw-dā′shus, adj. daring: bold: impudent.—adv. Audā′ciously.—ns. Audā′ciousness, Audacity (aw-das′i-ti). [Fr. audacieux—L. audax—audēre, to dare.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of audacious in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of audacious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of audacious in a Sentence

1. Eliot Engel:

   There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.

2. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman:

   Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

3. Emily Staub:

   It’s an audacious and mind-boggling idea, i’m not just talking about just him. I’m talking about a whole bunch of people with the Carter Center that decided that they were going to eradicate a disease that has no vaccine, no immunity, no medication. It’s thousands of years old and has a one-year incubation. The odds are totally stacked against you. And the people that suffer from it speak thousands of different languages, and some have never had outsiders interact with them.

4. Randy Mastro:

   This is a racketeering scheme so audacious it would make the mob blush.

5. Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy:

   Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=audacious
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Audacious
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=audacious
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/audacious
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=audacious
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=audacious