BODACIOUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does bodacious mean? • BODACIOUS (adjective)
The adjective BODACIOUS has 2 senses:
1. incorrigible
2. unrestrained by convention or propriety
Familiarity information: BODACIOUS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BODACIOUS (adjective)
Meaning:
Incorrigible
Context example:
a bodacious gossip
Similar:
unmitigated (not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
Unrestrained by convention or propriety
Synonyms:
brazen; brazen-faced; audacious; bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; insolent; brassy
Context examples:
an audacious trick to pull / a barefaced hypocrite / the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim / bald-faced lies / brazen arrogance / the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress
Similar:
unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)
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