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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adventuresome, adventurous, arrogant, bold, brash, brassy, brave, brazen, bumptious, careless, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold, confident, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive, devil-may-care, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, doughty, easy, emancipated, enterprising, familiar, fearless, fire-eating, foolhardy, forward, free, greatly daring, harebrained, heedless, hubristic, impertinent, impudent, independent, insolent, insulting, intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, mettlesome, obtrusive, overbold, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, presuming, presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, relaxed, rude, saucy, self-absorbed, self-centered, selfish, shameless, temerarious, thoughtless, unabashed, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, unhampered, uninhibited, unrestrained, untrammeled, uppish, uppity, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass
Dictionary Results for audacious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
audacious
    adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious
           explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers";
           "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave,
           dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid,
           unfearing]
    2: 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 [syn:
       audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced,
       brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
    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"
       [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Audacious \Au*da"cious\, a. [F. audacieux, as if fr. LL.
   audaciosus (not found), fr. L. audacia audacity, fr. audax,
   -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.]
   1. Daring; spirited; adventurous.
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            As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
            Audacious.                            --Milton.
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   2. Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
      bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
      Audacious traitor." --Shak. " Such audacious
      neighborhood." --Milton.
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   3. Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
      contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious
      cruelty." "Audacious prate." --Shak.
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