adjective
- Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
- usage: "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
- 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
- synonyms: barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
- Disposed to venture or take risks.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous
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