audacious

English

Etymology

From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“I am bold, I dare”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɔːˈdeɪʃəs/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Adjective

audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)

1. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     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.

2. Impudent.

Synonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

Antonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): shy, cautious, prudent

Derived terms

audaciously audaciousness

Related terms

audacity outdaciousness

Translations

showing willingness to take bold risks

• Bulgarian: смел (bg) (smel)
• Dutch: onvervaard (nl), driest (nl), koen (nl), vermetel (nl), waaghalzig (nl)
• German: kühn, unverfroren, waghalsig
• Hungarian: merész (hu), vakmerő (hu)
• Irish: neamhnáireach (ga)

• Latin: audax (la)
• Russian: отважный (ru) (otvažnyj), смелый (ru) (smelyj)
• Spanish: audaz (es)
• Swedish: våghalsig

impudent

• Bulgarian: дързък (bg) (dǎrzǎk)
• Dutch: schaamteloos (nl), driest (nl)
• German: kühn, unverfroren, dreist
• Hungarian: szemtelen (hu)

• Latin: impudens (la)
• Russian: дерзкий (ru) (derzkij), нахальный (ru) (naxalʹnyj), наглый (ru) (naglyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: dalm (gd)
• Spanish: insolente (es)

External links

• audacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• audacious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• audacious at OneLook Dictionary Search