Definitions for audacious

audacious au·da·cious

Spelling: [aw-dey-shuh s]
IPA: /ɔˈdeɪ ʃəs/

Audacious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 212 anagrams from letters in audacious (aacdiosuu).

Definitions for audacious

adjective

  1. extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless:
  2. extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive:
  3. recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, or the like; insolent; brazen.
  4. lively; unrestrained; uninhibited:

Origin of audacious

First recorded in 1540-50; audaci(ty) + -ous

Examples for audacious

If true, however, this would be bribery at its most audacious—and creative.

audacious as I was, I did not care to inquire in what room I should find them.

There was no audacious bobcat around to worry them that night.

Alice glanced at his serious face, and yielded to an audacious temptation.

It was audacious and global in scope, yet annoying for being unavoidable.

Record numbers of Scottish voters shot down an audacious bid to break their 300-year union with the United Kingdom.

It was audacious in me, but I took another liberty with Pangloss.

The change, so audacious, so unorthodox, disconcerted the Costa Ricans.

Variety taps Depardieu's "audacious performance [as] undeniably the pic's chief selling point."

She was an audacious woman, and openly looked compassionately at me.

Word Value for audacious
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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