Audacious vs Demure - What's the difference?
audacious | demure |
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/]
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Impudent.
Quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.
* W. Black
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Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
* L'Estrange
* Miss Mitford
(obsolete) To look demurely.
As adjectives the difference between audacious and demure
is that audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring while demure is quiet, modest, reserved, sober, or serious.As a verb demure is
to look demurely.audacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Synonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) bold, daring, temeritous, temerariousAntonyms
* (willing to take bold risks) shy, cautious, prudentDerived terms
() * audaciously * audaciousnessExternal links
* * *demure
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She is a demure young lady.
- Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
- A cat lay, and looked so demure , as if there had been neither life nor soul in her.
- Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
Derived terms
* demurenessVerb
(demur)- Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes... shall acquire no Honour Demuring upon me.'' – Shakespeare (1623) ''Antony & Cleopatra Act 4, Sc 16, Ln 30