audacious

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

adjective invulnerable to fear or intimidation
adjective unrestrained by convention or propriety; ; ; - Los Angeles Times; ; ; - Bertrand Russell
adjective disposed to venture or take risks

From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”).

But he is audacious and shameless. — The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
'Take it off this moment, you audacious boy! — Jo's Boys, Louisa May Alcott
“Oh! she is audacious enough for anything, my dear. — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing

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