Another word for audacious
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Adjective
Having or showing courage
- Marked by courage or daring; plucky.
- Robust and uninhibited; lusty:
- Spirited; plucky.
- Marked by or possessing great personal bravery; valiant.
- Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave:
- Not discouraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous.
- Feeling, exhibiting, or expressing no fear.
- Brave; courageous.
- Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
- Strong in body; sturdy:
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
- Having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances.
- Full of mettle; spirited and plucky.
- Resolutely courageous; fearless.
- Of, relating to, or resembling the heroes of literature, legend, or myth.
- Having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero; courageous:
- Impressive in size or scope; grand:
- Able to withstand difficult or adverse conditions; robust:
- Courageous; intrepid.
- Brazenly daring; audacious.
- An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime:
- A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules:
- A single instance of such an activity:
- Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing:
- Unflinching in battle or action; valiant:
- Nobly or selflessly resolute:
- Having fortitude; courageous.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Without fear; brave.
- Marked by stouthearted courage; brave.
- Incapable of being intimidated or discouraged; fearless.
- Having or characterized by courage; valiant.
- Possessing or displaying courage.
- Making a fine display; impressive or showy:
- Excellent; great:
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
See also:Taking or willing to take risks
- Venturesome.
- Disposed to venture or to take risks; daring.
- Involving risk or danger; hazardous:
- Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects:
- Willing to take or seek out risks; bold and venturesome.
- Involving great risk or danger:
- Audacious bravery; boldness.
- One who is recklessly bold.
- Recklessly bold.
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
- Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises:
- Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky:
- Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
See also:Rude and disrespectful
- Having the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious:
- Exhibiting common sense; prudent:
- Shrewd; crafty:
- Haughty or presumptuous, especially for one's rank or social standing:
- Not complacent or deferential; strongly self-assertive:
- Uppity.
- Sharp-tongued; impertinent:
- Occurring in pieces; fragmentary.
- Made up of snippets.
- Snippy; impertinent.
- Having the quality of a smart-aleck; rude, disrespectful
- New to one's experience; not encountered before:
- Unusual or different:
- Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled:
- To throw or toss with a light brisk motion:
- To toss in the air, imparting a spin:
- To cause to turn over or around, especially with a light quick motion:
- Made of or decorated with brass.
- Resembling brass, as in color.
- Resembling or characterized by the sound of brass instruments:
- Having or showing intelligence; bright.
- Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
- Amusingly clever; witty:
- Impertinent or disrespectful, especially in a playful or lively way:
- Attractive or stylish, especially in being sexually alluring:
- Having the consistency of or covered with sauce:
- Rude and disrespectful; impudent.
- Lively and spirited; jaunty.
- Stylish; chic:
- Disagreeably aggressive or forward.
- Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward:
- Having or showing excessive and arrogant self-confidence; presumptuous.
- High-spirited, lively, or cheerful:
- Impudently bold; saucy:
- Attractive or stylish in appearance:
- Excessively confident; presumptuous.
- Arrogantly impudent; brazen.
- Showing or requiring courage and fortitude; bold.
- Jumpy; nervous.
- Impudently bold in speech or manner; saucy.
- An impudent, saucy person.
- Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent or impudent.
- Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
- Offensively bold or disrespectful; insolent or impertinent.
- Immodest.
- Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold:
- Not pertinent:
- At, near, or belonging to the front or forepart; fore:
- Located ahead or in advance:
- Going, tending, or moving toward a position in front:
- Often encountered or seen:
- Having fair knowledge; acquainted:
- Of established friendship; intimate:
- rude in a contemptuous way; insulting and humiliating
- Impertinently bold; impudent and saucy.
- Unrestrained by a sense of shame; rudely bold.
- Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound:
- Made of brass.
- Presumptuously forward; impudent:
- Hasty or unrestrained without regard for consequences:
- Arresting, pronounced, or ostentatious:
- impudent or forward in manner
- boldface
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
- Characterized by assumption.
- Taken for granted; assumed.
- Presumptuous; assuming.
- Presumptuous; arrogant.
- On the assumption that; supposing:
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Another word for audacious
Modifier
Daring
- Resulting from or acting with ill-considered haste or boldness.
- Acting or done with a lack of care or caution; careless or irresponsible.
- Willing to take or seek out risks; bold and venturesome.
- Involving great risk or danger:
- Audacious bravery; boldness.
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
Impudent
- Not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised.
- Not concealed or disguised; obvious:
- Going beyond what is right or proper; excessively forward:
- Unrestrained by a sense of shame; rudely bold.
- Having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound:
- Made of brass.
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