audacity
n.
boldness, fearlessness; impudence, arrogance
Audacity
audacity
Noun
1. fearless daring
(synonym) audaciousness, temerity
(hypernym) boldness, daring, hardihood
2. aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision"
(synonym) audaciousness
(hypernym) boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek
(hyponym) presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption
Audacity
(n.)
Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
(n.)
Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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audacity
Synonyms and related words:
adventuresomeness, adventurousness, arrogance, assurance, audaciousness, balls, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brass, brassiness, bravado, bravura, brazenness, brinkmanship, bumptiousness, cheek, cheekiness, cockiness, contempt, contemptuousness, contumely, courage, courage fou, courting disaster, daredevilry, daredeviltry, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, derring-do, despite, disdain, disregard, effrontery, enterprise, face, fire-eating, flirting with death, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, going for broke, hardihood, hardiness, harebrainedness, hubris, impertinence, impudence, insolence, mettle, nerve, obtrusiveness, overboldness, overweening, overweeningness, pertness, playing with fire, presumption, presumptuousness, procacity, pushiness, resolution, sauciness, spirit, uppishness, uppityness, venturesomeness, venturousness
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.