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# audacious

«audacious» in Mova's school dictionary: **bold and daring, ready to take big risks** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more audacious, most audacious)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Audacious means bold and daring, ready to take big risks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/#m1)

2) (old use) Audacious can also mean rude or insolent, not showing respect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, heroes who dare great deeds and villains who dare to do wicked things.

### examples

- The audacious thief stole the king's horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/#x1)
- It was audacious to climb the tower in the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/#x2)
- The young hero was brave and audacious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «audacious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/audacious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.