Antonyms 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

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

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

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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"

   Antonyms:
   unadventurous, timid, ashamed(p)

   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

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

   Antonyms:
   timid, unadventurous, ashamed(p)

   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

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"

   Antonyms:
   timid, unadventurous, ashamed(p)

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

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1. audaciousadjective

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

How to use audacious in a sentence?

1. Randy Mastro:

   This is a racketeering scheme so audacious it would make the mob blush.

2. Gary Gulman:

   I mean, look, it's Carnegie Hall, my dreams were never audacious enough to really dream of performing it at Carnegie Hall. It's really a dream come true.

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. 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.

5. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman:

   Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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