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. Winston Churchill:

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

2. 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.

3. Eliot Engel:

   There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.

4. Ted Cruz:

   With one week to go in our first fund-raising quarter, we set a goal that we wanted to raise $1 million in a week. Now, I thought that was a pretty audacious goal, well, I'm sorry to tell you we failed in that goal. We didn't raise a million dollars in a week. We raised a million dollars in one day.

5. 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.