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audacious

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audacious in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. 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"
    audacious  daring  venturesome  venturous 
  2. invulnerable to fear or intimidation
    "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"
    audacious  brave  dauntless  fearless  hardy  intrepid  unfearing 
  3. 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
    audacious  barefaced  bodacious  bald-faced  brassy  brazen  brazen-faced  insolent 
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