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Audacious Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ous

Audacious has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

"audacious explorers"

"fearless reporters and photographers"

"intrepid pioneers"

2

unrestrained by convention or propriety

"an audacious trick to pull"

"a barefaced hypocrite"

"the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"

"bald-faced lies"

"brazen arrogance"

"the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"

3

disposed to venture or take risks

"audacious visions of the total conquest of space"

"an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"

"the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"

"a venturesome investor"

"a venturous spirit"

4

Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

Example Sentences
"audacious explorers" adjective
"fearless reporters and photographers" adjective
"intrepid pioneers" adjective
"an audacious trick to pull" adjective
"a barefaced hypocrite" adjective
"the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim" adjective
"bald-faced lies" adjective
"brazen arrogance" adjective
"the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress" adjective
"audacious visions of the total conquest of space" adjective
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Rhyming Words
ous lous pous vous sous yous nous tous eous uous ious bous hous pious anous thous chous aneous mucous famous
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