Synonyms for audacious
ɔˈdeɪ ʃəsau·da·cious

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1. audaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   temeritous, temerarious, daring, bold

   Antonyms:
   shy, cautious, prudent

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1. audacious

   Synonyms:
   insolent, adventurous, venturesome, presumptuous, valiant, rash, bold, daring, reckless, enterprising

   Antonyms:
   timid, cowardly, cautious, inadventurous, unventuresome, unenterprising

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1. audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearingadjective

   invulnerable to fear or intimidation

   "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

   Synonyms:
   unfearing, venturous, intrepid, courageous, brave, bald-faced, bodacious, braw, unafraid(p), barefaced, brassy, stout, brazen-faced, gay, daring, sturdy, venturesome, insolent, stalwart, fearless, hardy, dauntless, brazen

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, timid, ashamed(p)

2. audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolentadjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   brazen, brazen-faced, flip, meretricious, gimcrack, loud, brassy, flashy, intrepid, fearless, hardy, bodacious, venturous, daring, cheap, trashy, venturesome, brave, insolent, gaudy, garish, tatty, unfearing, bald, snotty-nosed, tawdry, brasslike, impudent, barefaced, bald-faced, dauntless, flash, tacky

   Antonyms:
   timid, unadventurous, ashamed(p)

3. audacious, daring, venturesome, venturousadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   unfearing, venturous, intrepid, brave, bald-faced, bodacious, barefaced, brassy, brazen-faced, daring, venturesome, insolent, avant-garde, fearless, hardy, dauntless, brazen

   Antonyms:
   timid, unadventurous, ashamed(p)

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1. audaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted

2. audaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent

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1. audaciousadjective

   Synonyms:
   presumptuous, impudent, insolent, brazen, unabashed, bold

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1. List of paraphrases for "audacious":

   bold, daring, courageous, brazen, adventurous, brave

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1. Pau Gasol:

   A lot of importance must be attached to his audacious attempt to make the leap at a time when the gulf between the two basketballs was very wide, martin dared and that deserves all possible recognition.

2. Katie Baldwin:

   When I look now at the starting of the farm, it seems really audacious, but in that environment, in 2008, everybody had lost their jobs and there weren't jobs - so it didn't feel that weird to start something.

3. Tomi Lahren:

   She ends her trash column with her best attempt at decency, saying she will maybe possibly give them the blessing of her appreciation if they repent for their audacious and unacceptable support for Donald Trump, lady.

4. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   Tunneling through barriers, particles defy the boundaries of our classical confinement, revealing the audacious spirit of quantum defiance against the imprisoning walls of determinism.

5. Thomas Zurbuchen:

   More than 20 years ago, the Webb team set out to build the most powerful telescope that anyone has ever put in space and came up with an audacious optical design to meet demanding science goals, today we can say that design is going to deliver.