[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

audacious \auda"cious\, a. f. audacieux, as if fr. ll.
   audaciosus not found, fr. l. audacia audacity, fr. audax,
   -acis, bold, fr. audere to dare.
   1. daring; spirited; adventurous.
      1913 webster

            as in a cloudy chair, ascending rides
            audacious.                            --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum;
      bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
      audacious traitor." --shak. " such audacious
      neighborhood." --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or
      contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "audacious
      cruelty." "audacious prate." --shak.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

audacious
     adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers";
            "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid
            pioneers" syn: brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid,
             unfearing
     2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick
        to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious
        display of tourism this side of anaheim"- los angeles
        times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern
        world with its quick material successes and insolent
        belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"-
        bertrand russell syn: barefaced, bodacious, bold-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"; "the most daring of contemporary
        fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous
        spirit" syn: daring, venturesome, venturous
see also:
brave dauntless fearless intrepid unfearing barefaced 
bodacious bold-faced brassy brazen brazen-faced 
insolent daring venturesome venturous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

92 moby thesaurus words for "audacious":
   adventuresome, adventurous, arrogant, bold, brash, brassy, brave,
   brazen, bumptious, careless, challenging, cheeky, cocky, cold,
   confident, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, courageous, daredevil,
   daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive,
   devil-may-care, disdainful, disregardful, disrespectful, doughty,
   easy, emancipated, enterprising, familiar, fearless, fire-eating,
   foolhardy, forward, free, greatly daring, harebrained, heedless,
   hubristic, impertinent, impudent, independent, insolent, insulting,
   intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, mettlesome, obtrusive,
   overbold, overpresumptuous, overweening, pert, presuming,
   presumptuous, procacious, pushy, rash, reckless,
   regardless of consequences, relaxed, rude, saucy, self-absorbed,
   self-centered, selfish, shameless, temerarious, thoughtless,
   unabashed, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, unhampered,
   uninhibited, unrestrained, untrammeled, uppish, uppity, valiant,
   valorous, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass

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