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Audacious vs Cheeky - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between audacious and cheeky

is that audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring while cheeky is impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.

audacious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • That such a safe adaptation could come of The Hunger Games speaks more to the trilogy’s commercial ascent than the book’s actual content, which is audacious and savvy in its dark calculations.
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  • Impudent.

    • Synonyms

    * (willing to take bold risks) bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

    Antonyms

    * (willing to take bold risks) shy, cautious, prudent

    Derived terms

    () * audaciously * audaciousness

    Related terms

    () * audacity * outdaciousness

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    cheeky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is regarded as endearing or amusing.
  • * 1899 , , Stalky & Co. , chaper 4:
    • "Shut up," said Harrison. "You chaps always behave as if you were jawin' us when we come to jaw you."
    "You're a lot too cheeky ," said Craye.
  • * 1909 , , The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England , chaper 7:
    • The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style.

    Synonyms

    * saucy * insolent * See