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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Audacious \Au*da"cious\, a. [F. audacieux as if fr LL audaciosus (not found), fr L. audacia audacity, fr audax -acis, bold, fr audere to dare.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: audacious adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: {brave}, {dauntless}, {fearless}, {intrepid}, {unfearing}] 2: 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; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: {barefaced}, {bodacious}, {bold-faced}, {brassy}, {brazen}, {brazen-faced}, {insolent}] 3: 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" [syn: {daring}, {venturesome}, {venturous}]
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