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. 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.

2. Emily Staub:

   It’s an audacious and mind-boggling idea, i’m not just talking about just him. I’m talking about a whole bunch of people with the Carter Center that decided that they were going to eradicate a disease that has no vaccine, no immunity, no medication. It’s thousands of years old and has a one-year incubation. The odds are totally stacked against you. And the people that suffer from it speak thousands of different languages, and some have never had outsiders interact with them.

3. 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.

4. Roger Law:

   The new Spitting Image will be global through a uniquely British eye. It will be more outrageous, audacious and salacious than the previous incarnation.

5. Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy:

   Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears.

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