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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AUDA'CIOUS, a. [L. audax; audeo, to dare. The sense is, advancing forward.]
1. Very bold or daring; impudent; conteming the restraints of law, religion or decorum; used for bold in wickedness; applied to persons; as an audacious wretch.
2. Committed with, or proceeding from, daring effrontery, or contempt of law; as an audacious crime.
3. Bold; spirited.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle French audacieux, from audace boldness, from Latin audacia, from audac-, audax bold, from aud?re to dare, from avidus eager — more at avid Date: 1550 1. a. intrepidly daring ; adventurous <an audacious mountain climber> b. recklessly bold ; rash <an audacious maneuver> 2. contemptuous of law, religion, or decorum ; insolent 3. marked by originality and verve <audacious experiments> • audaciously adverb • audaciousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 daring, bold. 2 impudent. Derivatives: audaciously adv. audaciousness n. audacity n. Etymology: L audax -acis bold f. audere dare

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. --Milton. 2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. `` Audacious traitor.'' --Shak. `` Such audacious neighborhood.'' --Milton. 3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. ``Audacious cruelty.'' ``Audacious prate.'' --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something. ...an audacious plan to win the presidency. = daring ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. (Now rare.) Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted. 2. Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent, shameless, unabashed, brazen, impertinent, full of effrontery.

Moby Thesaurus

adventuresome, adventurous, arrogant, bold, brash, brassy, brave, brazen, bumptious, careless, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold, confident, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive, devil-may-care, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, doughty, easy, emancipated, enterprising, familiar, fearless, fire-eating, foolhardy, forward, free, greatly daring, harebrained, heedless, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, independent, insolent, insulting, intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, mettlesome, obtrusive, overbold, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, relaxed, rude, saucy, self-absorbed, self-centered, selfish, shameless, temerarious, thoughtless, unabashed, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, unhampered, uninhibited, unrestrained, untrammeled, uppish, uppity, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass