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bold-faced

bold-faced is the alternative spelling of boldfaced.

Meaning of boldfaced

Adjective

boldfaced (comparative more boldfaced, superlative most boldfaced)

  1. Of text emphasized by being set in a font having thicker strokes, yielding a heavier or darker appearance.
    Synonyms:
    bold, boldface, heavy
  2. (broadly) Important, prominent.
    • boldface(d) names
    Synonyms:
    boldface
  3. (figuratively) Eggcorn of bald-faced; impudent, brazen.
    • He had the bold-faced effrontery to ask for a raise.
    Synonyms:
    barefaced

Forms of bold-faced

comparativemore bold-faced
superlativemost bold-faced

Questions about bold-faced

What is bold-faced the alternative spelling of?
Bold-faced is the alternative spelling of boldfaced.

Words near bold-faced in the dictionary

  1. bold move, Cotton
  2. bold movie
  3. bold movies
  4. bold star
  5. bold stars
  6. bold-faced
  7. bold-hearted
  8. boldacious
  9. bolded
  10. bolden
  11. boldened

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bold-faced (page history and authors); boldfaced (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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