audacious
Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
Adjective
- Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
- It was an audacious thing for her to attempt, but boldness had often served her turn before. - 1871, Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds:
- That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations. - 2012 March 22, Scott...
- The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in...
Synonyms: bold daring courageous intrepid venturesome temeritous temerarious
- Impudent, insolent.
Synonyms: impudent presumptuous brazen cheeky
Origin
From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from audeō (“to be bold, to dare”).