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audacious

adj
/ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs/UK/ɔˈdeɪ.ʃəs/US/ɑˈdeɪ.ʃəs/

Etymology

From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”).

  1. derived from audacia — “boldness”

Definitions

  1. Showing willingness to take bold risks

    Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

    • It was an audacious thing for her to attempt, but boldness had often served her turn before.
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
    • The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.

  2. Impudent, insolent.

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Derived

audaciously, audaciousness, boldacious, unaudacious

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA