audacious

== English == === Etymology === From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“I am bold, I 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 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1] That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations. 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.