Synonyms for Audacious

Synonyms for "audacious" (174 found)

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Closest matches (35)

Adjective(24 words)

brazen daring adventurous ambitious bald-faced ballsier ballsiest ballsybare facebarefaced bodacious boldbold flavorbold headingsbold momentumbold phrasingbold tacticbolder boldest brashest

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brassiest brasslike brassy brave

adventuresome adventurous arrogant bold brash brassy brave

Noun(4 words)

bold moveboldface brass braving

Strong matches (52)

brazen bumptious careless challenging cheeky cocky cold confident contemptuous contumelious cool courageous daredevil daring dauntless death-defying defiant defying derisivedevil-may-care

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disdainful disregardful disrespectful doughty easy emancipated enterprising familiar fearless fire-eating flagrant foolhardy forward freegreatly daring

Adjective(14 words)

brazen-faced cheekier cheeky cockier dauntless fearless foolhardier foolhardiest groundbreaking gumptious gustiest gutsier gutsiest gutsy

Verb(1 words)

brazened

Noun(2 words)

desperado gallus

Related words (87)

Adjective(20 words)

hardy heady immodest impudent innovative insolent intrepid kickier nervy outrageous prometheanrisky methodsassier sauciest solent spunkiest unfearing venturesome venturouswild idea

harebrained heedless heroic hubristic impertinent impudent independent indiscreet insolent insulting intrepid madbrain madbrained madcap mettlesome obtrusive overbold overconfident overpresumptuous overweening

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Noun(5 words)

moonshot perterrevolutionarily innovative approachstorming bastilleventuring

Adverb(1 words)

more wild energy

Verb(1 words)

sallied

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

6 entries

approach behavior boldnesscharacter traitconduct creativity

More specific

6 entries

bold actionbrazen actcheeky remarkgroundbreaking idearadical redesignrisk taking

Collocations

6 entries

audacious claimaudacious decisionaudacious ideaaudacious moveaudacious planaudacious question

Inflections

2 entries

more audaciousmost audacious

Derivations

2 entries

audaciously audaciousness

similar

4 entries

adventuresome adventurous bold unashamed

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Only an audacious mind will be able to solve this riddle.

Source: tatoeba (1142322)

You've got to be audacious!

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The thieves pulled off an audacious robbery in broad daylight.

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Hundreds of millions of kilometers from earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet — an audacious first designed to answer big questions about the universe.

Source: tatoeba (11406449)

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Audacious