bold

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Someone who's bold is daring and brave. You might show how bold you are by climbing onto the roof of your house, or by speaking up when you see someone being treated unfairly.

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Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

Noun
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Adjective
fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"

Adjective S.
clear and distinct; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in bold relief"; "a bold design"

Adjective S.
very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock"


n.
Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

n.
Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.

n.
In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.

n.
Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.

n.
Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.

n.
Steep; abrupt; prominent.

v. t.
To make bold or daring.

v. i.
To be or become bold.


Bold

Bold , a. [OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin to Icel. ballr, OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth. balei boldness, It. baldo. In Ger. there remains only bald, adv. soon. Cf. Bawd, n.] 1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
Throngs of knights and barons bold.
2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design leased highly." Milton. 3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice.
4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in o composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold. "Bold tales." Waller.
The cathedral church is a very bold work.
5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder.
6. Steep; abrupt; prominent.
Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.

Bold

Bold , v. t. To make bold or daring. [Obs.] Shak.

Bold

Bold, v. i. To be or become bold. [Obs.]

Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

To make bold or daring.

To be or become bold.

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Usage Examples

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

But, on another level it's really sort of this really cool coming of age story, it reminds me of like The Breakfast Club or something like that, if I can be so bold to associate with The Breakfast Club.

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Freedom lies in being bold.

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Other Usage Examples

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

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