audacious

/ɔˈdeɪʃəs/

/ɔˈdeɪʃəs/

This adjective is very bold — if you are audacious, you are daring and unconventional!

The adjective audacious comes from the Latin word audacia and means "daring, boldness, courage," and often gets applied in situations where someone does something pretty unusual, like becoming an astronaut and going to the moon. It can also mean challenging conventions and doing things that most people don't do, such as when Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the United States to become a doctor. Blackwell then inspired Elizabeth Garrett Anderson to become the first female doctor in England. And the rest is history!

Definitions of audacious

1. adjective

   disposed to venture or take risks
   “audacious visions of the total conquest of space”

   “an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas”

   synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous

   adventuresome, adventurous

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
2. adjective

   not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
   “an audacious trick to pull”

   synonyms: bald-faced, barefaced, bodacious, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent

   unashamed

   used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame
3. adjective

   invulnerable to fear or intimidation
   “audacious explorers”

   synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing

   bold

   fearless and daring