英语词汇“audacity”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

audacity

/ɔːˈdasɪti

noun [mass noun]

1A willingness to take bold risks: he whistled at the sheer audacity of the plan...

I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
And it's ten times worse if somebody learns that I've got a website and has the sheer audacity to actually ask for the URL.
An amazing scheme - both for it's simplicity and sheer audacity.

Synonyms

boldness, daring, fearlessness, intrepidity, bravery, courage, courageousness, valour, valorousness, heroism, pluck, recklessness;

adventurousness, enterprise, dynamism, spirit, mettle, confidence

informal guts, gutsiness, spunk, grit

British informal bottle, ballsiness

North American informal moxie, cojones, sand

vulgar slang balls

rare venturousness, temerariousness

2Rude or disrespectful behaviour; impudence: she had the audacity to suggest I’d been carrying on with him...

Once again he was lambasted and mocked when he had the audacity to put forward a logical explanation.
She then had the audacity to allege that I had exaggerated the truth in order to win a government grant of 750,000 to improve road safety.
I can't believe that person actually had the audacity to say something like that.

Synonyms

impudence, impertinence, insolence, presumption, presumptuousness, forwardness, cheek, cheekiness, impoliteness, unmannerliness, bad manners, rudeness, effrontery, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, pertness, defiance, boldness, temerity

informal brass, brass neck, neck, face, cockiness

British informal sauce

Scottish informal snash

North American informal sass, sassiness, nerviness, chutzpah

informal, dated hide

British informal, dated crust

archaic malapertness

rare procacity, assumption

Origin

Late Middle English: from medieval Latin audacitas, from audax, audac- 'bold' (see audacious).

单词	audacity
释义	audacity /ɔːˈdasɪti / noun [mass noun] 1A willingness to take bold risks: he whistled at the sheer audacity of the plan... I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance! And it's ten times worse if somebody learns that I've got a website and has the sheer audacity to actually ask for the URL. An amazing scheme - both for it's simplicity and sheer audacity. Synonyms boldness, daring, fearlessness, intrepidity, bravery, courage, courageousness, valour, valorousness, heroism, pluck, recklessness; adventurousness, enterprise, dynamism, spirit, mettle, confidence informal guts, gutsiness, spunk, grit British informal bottle, ballsiness North American informal moxie, cojones, sand vulgar slang balls rare venturousness, temerariousness 2Rude or disrespectful behaviour; impudence: she had the audacity to* suggest I’d been carrying on with him... Once again he was lambasted and mocked when he had the audacity to put forward a logical explanation. She then had the audacity to allege that I had exaggerated the truth in order to win a government grant of 750,000 to improve road safety. I can't believe that person actually had the audacity to say something like that. Synonyms impudence, impertinence, insolence, presumption, presumptuousness, forwardness, cheek, cheekiness, impoliteness, unmannerliness, bad manners, rudeness, effrontery, nerve, gall, brazenness, brashness, shamelessness, pertness, defiance, boldness, temerity informal* brass, brass neck, neck, face, cockiness British informal sauce Scottish informal snash North American informal sass, sassiness, nerviness, chutzpah informal, dated hide British informal, dated crust archaic malapertness rare procacity, assumption Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin audacitas, from audax, audac- 'bold' (see audacious). Rhymes capacity, fugacity, loquacity, mendacity, opacity, perspicacity, pertinacity, pugnacity, rapacity, sagacity, sequacity, tenacity, veracity, vivacity, voracity
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