audacious

== English == === Etymology === From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”). === Pronunciation === (UK) enPR: ô-dāʹshəs IPA(key): /ɔːˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ (US) enPR: ô-dāʹshəs IPA(key): /ɔˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ Hyphenation: au‧da‧cious Rhymes: -eɪʃəs === Adjective === audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious) Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring. Synonyms: bold, daring, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, temeritous, temerarious Antonyms: shy, cautious, prudent Impudent, insolent. Synonyms: impudent, presumptuous, brazen, cheeky ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “audacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “audacious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “audacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.