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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Taking or willing to take risks: adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, daredevil, daring, enterprising, venturesome, venturous. See SAFETY. 2. Having or showing courage: audacious, brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, fortitudinous, gallant, game, hardy, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous. Informal : spunky. Slang : gutsy, gutty. See FEAR. 3. Rude and disrespectful: assuming, assumptive, audacious, boldfaced, brash, brazen, cheeky, contumelious, familiar, forward, impertinent, impudent, insolent, malapert, nervy, overconfident, pert, presuming, presumptuous, pushy, sassy, saucy, smart. Informal : brassy, flip, fresh, smart-alecky, snippety, snippy, uppish, uppity. Slang : wise1. See ATTITUDE, COURTESY. 4. Readily attracting notice: arresting, conspicuous, eye-catching, marked, noticeable, observable, outstanding, pointed, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, salient, signal, striking. Idioms: sticking out like a sore thumb. See SEE. 5. So sharply inclined as to be almost perpendicular: abrupt, precipitous, sheer2, steep1. See HORIZONTAL.
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