audacious
Syllables: au·da·cious/ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs/US/ɔˈdeɪ.ʃəs/
audacious adjective: showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
Adjective
audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)
- 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.1871, Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds
- 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.2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2013
- Synonyms:
- bold, daring, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, temeritous, temerarious
- Impudent, insolent.
- Synonyms:
- impudent, presumptuous, brazen, cheeky
audacious meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
audacious in Tamil
- துடுக்கான, துணிச்சலான, வெட்கமற்ற, வெட்கங்கெட்ட
audacious in Urdu
- بیباک, گستاخ, جسور
audacious in Bengali
- audacious, haughty
- কাণ্টা kanṭa
audacious in Malayalam
- അഹങ്കാരമുളള, ധിക്കാരിയായ
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- audacious in Persian
- جسور jasur, بیمحابا bi-mohâbâ, بیپروا bi-parvâ, گستاخ gostâx
Examples of audacious in a sentence
- Taken on its own terms, “The Human Age” is a dazzling achievement: immensely readable, lively, polymathic, audacious.
- And they're often infuriatingly well-crafted buzzwords – combining impact with audacious disingenuousness.
- Deep learning was given a particularly audacious display at a conference last month in Tianjin, China, when Richard F.
Synonyms of audacious
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Antonyms
Forms of audacious
| comparative | more audacious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most audacious |
Origin of audacious
From Latin audacia (“boldness”) + -ious, from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”).
Words formed from audacious
Words that rhyme with audacious
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- cucurbitaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about audacious
- What does audacious mean?
- Audacious means showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
- What is audacious in Tamil?
- Audacious in Tamil is துடுக்கான, துணிச்சலான, வெட்கமற்ற. See Audacious meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is audacious?
- Audacious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce audacious?
- Audacious is pronounced /ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ (UK).
Words near audacious in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: audacious (page history and authors); audacious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); audacious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); কাণ্টা (Bengali) (page history and authors); audacious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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