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Adjective: audacious  o'dey-shus
  1. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
    "audacious explorers"
    - brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
     
  2. Unrestrained by convention or propriety
    "an audacious trick to pull"
    - barefaced, bodacious [N. Amer], bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent
     
  3. Disposed to venture or take risks
    "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"
    - daring, venturesome, venturous

See also: adventuresome, adventurous, audaciously, audacity, bold, unashamed

Encyclopedia: Audacious