audaciousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: ô-dāʹshəs IPA^(key): /ɔːˈdeɪʃəs/
• (米国発音) enPR: ô-dāʹshəs IPA^(key): /ɔˈdeɪʃəs/
• 韻: -eɪʃəs

形容詞

audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)

1. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     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.

   • 2014 August 21, “A brazen heist in Paris [print version: International New York Times, 22 August 2014, p. 8]”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     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 recent months.

2. Impudent, insolent.

同意語

• (willing to take bold risks): bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

反意語

• (willing to take bold risks): shy, cautious, prudent

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