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Definition: Audacious |
AudaciousAdjective1. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers". 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "audacious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Audacious \Au*da"cious\, adjective. [French expression audacieux, as if from late Latin audaciosus (not found), from the Latin expression audacia audacity, from audax, -acis, bold, from audere to dare.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AUDACIOUS | English | Automatic Direct Access to Information with the On-line UDC System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: AudaciousSynonyms: barefaced (adj), bodacious (adj), bold-faced (adj), brassy (adj), brave (adj), brazen (adj), brazen-faced (adj), daring (adj), dauntless (adj), fearless (adj), insolent (adj), intrepid (adj), unfearing (adj), venturesome (adj), venturous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass. |
Insolence | Impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury ". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Audacious |
| English words defined with "audacious": assumption, audaciously ♦ barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced ♦ daring ♦ effrontery ♦ insolent ♦ presumption, presumptuousness ♦ Stor ♦ tiger ♦ venturesome, venturous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "audacious": JESTER ♦ Lazarillo de Tormes. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Audacious" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (bold). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Audacious Mr. Squire (1923) Always Audacious (1920) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | JESTER, n. An officer formerly attached to a king's household, whose business it was to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances, the absurdity being attested by his motley costume. The king himself being attired with dignity, it took the world some centuries to discover that his own conduct and decrees were sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind. The jester was commonly called a fool, but the poets and romancers have ever delighted to represent him as a singularly wise and witty person. In the circus of to-day the melancholy ghost of the court fool effects the dejection of humbler audiences with the same jests wherewith in life he gloomed the marble hall, panged the patrician sense of humor and tapped the tank of royal tears. The widow-queen of Portugal Had an audacious jester Who entered the confessional Disguised, and there confessed her. "Father," she said, "thine ear bend down -- My sins are more than scarlet: I love my fool -- blaspheming clown, And common, base-born varlet." "Daughter," the mimic priest replied, "That sin, indeed, is awful: The church's pardon is denied To love that is unlawful. "But since thy stubborn heart will be For him forever pleading, Thou'dst better make him, by decree, A man of birth and breeding." She made the fool a duke, in hope With Heaven's taboo to palter; Then told a priest, who told the Pope, Who damned her from the altar! Barel Dort |
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| "Audacious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Audacious" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 99 | 32,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "audacious": over-audacious. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
audacious | 7 |
audacious big goal hairy | 3 |
air audacious nike | 3 |
audacious gear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "audacious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kokëkrisur (foolhardy, Hardy, harum scarum, rash, reckless), i pacipë (arrogant, barefaced, brassy, brazen, brazen faced, bumptious, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, immodest, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, perky, pert, saucy, shameless, unblushing), i guximshëm (brave, courageous, Doughty, gamy, Hardy, sturdy, valiant), guximtar (bold, bold man, courageous, courageous man, dare devil, daring, foolhardy, gallant, game, gritty, hardy man, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spunky, stout, stouthearted, temerarious, tossy). (various references) | |
Arabic | مغامر (adventurer, adventurous, buccaneer, enterprising, escapade, foolhardy, gambler, rash, reckless, venturesome), متهور (blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, excessive, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), جسور (adventurous, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, fearless, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, stout hearted), جرىء (adventurous, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, defiant, fearless, forward, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, stout, stout hearted). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смел (adventurous, ambitious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant, venturesome), безочлив (assured, brash, brazenfaced, graceless, immodest, impertinent, impudent, saucy, unabashed, unashamed), дързък (arrogant, assuming, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, saucy, venturesome). (various references) | |
Chinese | 大胆 (Blatant, Bold, Boldness, Daring). (various references) | |
Czech | smìlý (bold, daring, pert, spunky, stouthearted), odvážný (brave, courageous, daring, fearless, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, mettlesome, perilous, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart, venturesome), neohrožený (fearless, intrepid, undaunted), drzý (barefaced, bold, brash, brazen, bumptious, cheeky, chesty, cool, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, pert, saucy, smart, unbridled). (various references) | |
Dutch | stoutmoedig (bold, courageous, daring, fearless, intrepid), stout (bold, courageous, daring, fearless, intrepid), gedurfd (bold, daring, intrepid), brutaal (abandoned, bold, brazen, daring, impertinent, impudent, intrepid, rude). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aŭdaca (bold, daring, intrepid). (various references) | |
Farsi | متهور 1 (Bold, Brash, Hardy, Intrepid, Venturer), بیشرم , بی پروا (Adventurer, Confident, Daredevil, Dashing, Harebrained, Headlong, Heady, Heedless, Impetuous, Inconsiderate, Rash, Reckless, Slapdash, Unadvised, Unscrupulous), بی باکانه , بی باک (Bold, Brazen, Daredevil, Dashing, Heroic, Intrepid, Stalwart, Venturer). (various references) | |
Finnish | uskalias (bold, daring, hazardous, risky, venturesome). (various references) | |
French | audacieux. (various references) | |
German | unverfroren (abandoned, barefaced, blatantly, bold, brazen, cool, impolite, impudent, insolent, rude, unabashed, unabashedly), kühn (audaciously, bold, boldly, daring, enterprising, enterprisingly, hardily, hardy, heroic, intrepid, intrepidly, provocative, valiant, venturesome, wild). (various references) | |
Greek | παράτολμος (foolhardy, rash, reckless, temerarious), αναιδήσ (barefaced, brassy, cheeky, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, impudent, saucy, squirt), αυθάδησ (arrogant, brash, brazen, flippant, forward, impertinent, insolent, jackanapes, pert, presumer, presumptuous, sassy, saucy), θρασύσ (bold, cheeky, daring, impudent, nervy, pert, presumptuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "רפתק י (adventurous, madcap, picaresque), ועז (bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, desperate, enterprising, fearless, forward, venturesome). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vakmerő (adventurous, daring, foolhardy, nervy, reckless), merész (adventurous, bold, brave, coup, daring, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, intrepid, parlous, plucky, presumptuous, risky, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | berani (brave, dare, dauntless, game, manful, plucky, stout, stout-hearted, valiant). (various references) | |
Italian | audace (bold, daredevil, daring, go ahead, lionhearted, rash, risque). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 大胆 (bold, daring). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくめ"もない (bold, impudent, unabashed, unashamed), なまいき (brazen, cheeky, conceit, impertinent, saucy), のぶとい (throaty), いた" (bold, daring). (various references) | |
Manx | neunearagh (flagrant), meenearagh (bold, brazen, glaring, glaring of injustice, immodest, imprudent, ribald, shameless, unashamed, unblushing). (various references) | |
Norwegian | dumdristig (foolhardy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | audaciousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ousado (chanceful, confident, daring, hardy, high-spirited, intrepid, perky, plucky, reckless, unabashed, venturesome). (various references) | |
Romanian | temerar (daringly, foolhardy, overdaring, rashly, temerarious, venturesome), obraznic (bad, barefaced, bold, boldly, brazenly, cheekily, cheeky, cocky, contemptuous, cool, disobedient, flippant, forward, fresh, graceless, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nasty, naughty, nervy, obtrusive, perky, pert, pertly, presumptuous, provocative, rebellious, sauce box, saucy, unruly, untoward, uppish), nepoliticos (abrupt, bluntly, coarsely, discourteous, disobligingly, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, nasty, naughty, obscenely, unceremonious, uncivil), insolent (cheeky, impertinent, impertinently, insolent), dârz (adamant, daring, gamy, resistant, saucy, steadfast, stout, stoutly, strong-minded, stubborn, unflinching), îndrãzneţ (assuming, bold, boldly, cheeky, cocky, courageous, daring, fearless, gallant, high-spirited, intrepid, manful, nervy, overdaring, reckless, risky, venturesome). (various references) | |
Russian | смелый (adventuresome, adventurous, bold, brave, courageous, dare devil, game, gritty, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, spirited, spunky, stouthearted, stout-hearted, venturesome, ventursome), дерзкий (bold, brash, cheeky, cocky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, flippant, forward, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, perky, pert, petulant, presumptuous, reckless, sassy, saucy, tossy). (various references) | |
Scottish | dalma (bold, forward, obstinate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odvažan (bold, brave, courageous, daring, hardy, mettled, mettlesome), drzak (be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious, venturesome), bezočan (arrant, barefaced, impudent, nefarious, reprobate). (various references) | |
Spanish | audaz (bold, fearless, hardy, intrepid, venturesome), atrevido (bold, daredevil, daring, foppish, forward, impudent, insolent, naughty, pert, presumptuous, venturesome), osado (nervy, presuming, reckless), intrépido (bold, Dauntless, fearless, intrepid). (various references) | |
Swedish | djärv (bold, brave, daring, gamy, heroic, plucky, undaunted). (various references) | |
Thai | กล้าหาญ (bold, doughty, fearless, lion-hearted). (various references) | |
Turkish | yürekli (brave, courageous, great-hearted, Hardy, hearted, plucky, red blooded, valiant, valorous), küstah (arrogant, assuming, bold, bold-faced, brash, brassy, cheeky, chesty, cool, flip, flippant, fresh, ill mannered, impertinent, impudent, insolent, insulting, malapert, nervy, overbearing, presuming, presumptuous, stroppy, too familiar, unabashed, wise), gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, bold, courageous, dare devil, daring, fearless, gamy, gutsy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, venturesome, Venturous), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), cüretli (adventurous, bold, confident, daring, forward, presuming, presumptuous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміливий (amazonian, cant, courageous, daring, game, gamy, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky, venturesome), нахабний (bold-faced, cheeky, contumelious, coxy, impudent, necky), зухвалий (aggressive, barefaced, bold, bold-faced, brazen faced, cheeky, cocksy, cocky, coxy, daring, flip, immodest, impertinent, insolent, necky, overbearing, perky, pert, provocative, provocatory, pushing, rousing, saucy, wise), зарозумілий (arrogant, contemptuous, dogmatic, dogmatical, domineering, high and mighty, highbrow, insolent, lordly, overbearing, overly, overweening, proud, self-conceited, self-explanatory, self-important, snooty, stately, stiff necked, stuck up, topping, upstage), завзятий (daring, fervent, mettled, mettlesome, pertinacious, proud, stubborn, unsparing). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | táo bạo trơ tráo, mặt dạn m y d y (barefaced, cheeky, cool, impudent), gan (dippy, pluck), c n rỡ. (various references) | |
Welsh | hy (bold, brazen), haerllug (blatant, brazen, importunate, impudent), digywilydd (blatant, impudent), beiddgar (daring). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audace, audaces, audaci, audacia, audacius, audax. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | frecne. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "audacious": audaciously, audaciousness, audaciousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Audacious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adacious, audacius, audatious, audcaious, audessus, caudacutus, Eudocio. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "audacious" (pronounced Ädā"shus) |
| 5 | -d ā" sh u s | predaceous. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u s | capacious, efficacious, fallacious, flirtatious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, loquacious, ostentatious, salacious, sebaceous, spacious, tenacious, vexatious, vivacious, voracious. |
| 3 | -sh u s | ambitious, anxious, atrocious, auspicious, capricious, cautious, conscientious, conscious, contentious, delicious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, ferocious, fictitious, fractious, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, pretentious, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, seditious, semiprecious, specious, subconscious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tendentious, unconscious, unpretentious, vicious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-o-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: audios. | |
-4 letters: acids, adios, asdic, audio, cadis, caids, codas, disco, scudi, scudo, sodic. | |
-5 letters: acid, ados, aids, asci, cadi, cads, caid, casa, ciao, coda, cods, cuds, dais, disc, docs, duci, duos, ocas, odic, ouds, sadi, said, scad, scud, soda, udos. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-o-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: audaciously. | |
+4 letters: audaciousness. | |
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