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. 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. Randy Mastro:

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

3. Uhuru Kenyatta:

   He had the same audacious hope that you have.

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. 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.

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