Word Meanings - AUDACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax, -acis, bold, fr. audere 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;

Additional info about word: AUDACIOUS

found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax, -acis, bold, fr. audere 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUDACIOUS)

• Desperate
• Wild
• daring
• audacious
• determined
• reckless
• abandoned
• rash
• furious
• frantic
• despairing
• regardless
• mad
• desponding
• hapless
• inextricable
• irremediable
• Rash
• Headstrong
• hasty
• precipitate
• foolhardy
• careless
• adventurous
• thoughtless
• indiscreet
• venturesome
• overventuresome
• incautious
• unwary
• heedless
• Venturous
• Daring
• intrepid

Related words: (words related to AUDACIOUS)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• UNWARY
  1. Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless. 2. Unexpected; unforeseen; unware. Spenser.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• DESPONDENCY
  The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• HEBDOMADARY
  A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
• ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
  See ZAMINDARY