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audacious
Synonyms and Antonyms of audacious
- The candidate leveled audacious charges against his opponent.
bold, bold-faced, brash, brassbound, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, sassy, saucy, wise
- an audacious effort to start a business with no real plan or funding
- audacious adventurers risking everything they had for a shot at glory
brash, daredevil, foolhardy, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, madcap, overbold, overconfident, rash, reckless, thoughtless, wild
brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, swashbuckling, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous
gritty, plucky, spirited, spunky
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crazy, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty, scatterbrained, silly, wacky (also whacky), witless
chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, craven, lily-livered, milk-livered, milky, shy, timid, timorous
careful, cautious, heedful, prudent, wary
affrighted, afraid, alarmed, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, horrified, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized
calm, cool, levelheaded, rational, reasonable, sage, sane, sensible, sound, wise
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