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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
- Example: "audacious explorers"
- Example: "fearless reporters and photographers"
- Example: "intrepid pioneers"
[syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing]

2. unrestrained by convention or propriety;
- Example: "an audacious trick to pull"
- Example: "a barefaced hypocrite"
- Example: "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times
- Example: "bald-faced lies"
- Example: "brazen arrogance"
- Example: "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell
[syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

3. disposed to venture or take risks;
- Example: "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"
- Example: "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"
- Example: "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"
- Example: "a venturesome investor"
- Example: "a venturous spirit"
[syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Audacious \Au*da"cious\, a. [F. audacieux, as if fr. LL.
   audaciosus (not found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax,
   -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.]
   1. Daring; spirited; adventurous.
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            As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
            Audacious.                            --Milton.
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   2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
      bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
      Audacious traitor." --Shak. " Such audacious
      neighborhood." --Milton.
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   3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
      contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious
      cruelty." "Audacious prate." --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

audacious
    adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious
           explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers";
           "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave,
           dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid,
           unfearing]
    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:
       audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced,
       brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
    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: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]