audacious

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It is just a big hairy audacious goal.

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invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

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adjective

invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

adjective

unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell

adjective

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"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for audacious.

adjective

invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers"

See also: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing

adjective

See also: daring, venturesome, venturous

Example sentences

It is just a big hairy audacious goal.

I felt like a newbie, but when I saw the kinds of audacious programs you could write, I was hooked.

This is almost absurdly audacious and I love them for it.

Every fact you learn about these guys is more audacious and awesome than the last.

"This is an audacious enough claim that citation is needed.

Both are audacious, with different goals but extremely similar work along both paths.

More specifically:"audacious proposal" - It won't happen unless the support is there, so what's so crazy about it?

" [1]Joseph Harrison, collector for the port of Boston:"Large quantities of dutiable goods have been smuggled in a most audacious manner.

This is one the largest LBOs in history, the largest since the financial crisis, and an audacious in swimming upstream against technological trends.

A unique individual with one of the most brilliant, funny, audacious and original voices on the Internet and you'd like to see him sued out of existence?

The connection is really weak ... But as for the audacious title - the article begins the analysis in the correct era - the liberalization of the Indian economy.

I'm just saying, the more control we exert through our copyrights, the less right I feel we have to call anybody else entitled, because the things we can force people to do through copyright are just ridiculously audacious from a perspective of natural rights.

They killed this page because "too many people were using it" - and they had a pretty audacious blog post assuring that now it is a better customer experience claiming "it caused contention to ship" - although I never had a problem and sorely missed the feature when it was gone- You used to be able to see the top 50 streaming movies.