audacious
bold, daring (person, undertaking)
TRANSLATION
audacious = mutig, dreist, verwegen (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX audacious: approximately 3,500,000 hits audacity: approximately 9,000,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
To some, the dam illustrates the ability of the Chinese government to forge ahead with AUDACIOUS multibillion-dollar projects, heralded as in the long-term good of the nation, but with devastating consequences for local communities who remain largely voiceless.
(BBC News)
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"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more AUDACIOUS."
- Alphonse Karr, 20th century French critic, journalist and novelist
(BBC News)
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"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more AUDACIOUS."
- Alphonse Karr, 20th century French critic, journalist and novelist
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audacious
adjective (noun = audacity)
- extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless (an audacious explorer)
- extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive (an audacious vision of the city's bright future)
- recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
- lively; unrestrained; uninhibited (an audacious interpretation of her role)
(Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006)
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WORD ORIGIN
Audacious (circa 1550) is borrowed from the Middle French audacious, from audace (boldness), which is borrowed from the Latin audax (bold) and audere (to be bold).
To be audacious is synonymous with the willingness to take risks. No risk, no fun. No pain, no gain. A joint study conducted by several research institutes in Germany in 2005 concluded that people who take risks are generally more satisfied with their lives. But they were unable to draw any conclusions as to why. One of the authors of the study put it this way:
Are satisfied people more optimistic because they are more audacious, or vice-versa? That's like trying to figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg.
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SYNONYMS
adventurous, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty, intrepid, nervy, rash, reckless, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
cautious, cowardly, fearful, meek, reserved, timid
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"By the way, that was an audacious strategy you presented. It will be interesting to see if the management are willing to take the risk."
adjective (noun = audacity)
- extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless (an audacious explorer)
- extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive (an audacious vision of the city's bright future)
- recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
- lively; unrestrained; uninhibited (an audacious interpretation of her role)
(Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006)
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WORD ORIGIN
Audacious (circa 1550) is borrowed from the Middle French audacious, from audace (boldness), which is borrowed from the Latin audax (bold) and audere (to be bold).
To be audacious is synonymous with the willingness to take risks. No risk, no fun. No pain, no gain. A joint study conducted by several research institutes in Germany in 2005 concluded that people who take risks are generally more satisfied with their lives. But they were unable to draw any conclusions as to why. One of the authors of the study put it this way:
Are satisfied people more optimistic because they are more audacious, or vice-versa? That's like trying to figure out which came first, the chicken or the egg.
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SYNONYMS
adventurous, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty, intrepid, nervy, rash, reckless, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
cautious, cowardly, fearful, meek, reserved, timid
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO A CONVERSATION TODAY
say something like:
"By the way, that was an audacious strategy you presented. It will be interesting to see if the management are willing to take the risk."
