Audacious vs High-spirited - What's the difference?
audacious | high-spirited | Related terms |
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.
Possessing a bold nature.
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* 1918 , , "The Princess":
Energetic, exuberant, or high-strung.
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Audacious is a related term of high-spirited.
As adjectives the difference between audacious and high-spirited
is that audacious is showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring while high-spirited is possessing a bold nature.audacious
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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
* * *high-spirited
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Adjective
- The more high-spirited among the youth were, about the time that our narrative begins, expecting, rather with hope than apprehension, an opportunity of emulating their fathers in their military achievements.
- "She was as fine a figure of a woman as I was a man, as high-spirited and courageous, as reckless and dare-devilish."
- Their poor mother was, I believe, naturally a lighthearted, sociable, high-spirited little creature; and her gay and childish nature pined in the isolation and gloom of her lot.
- Though she was nineteen she gave the effect of a high-spirited precocious child, and in the present glow of her youth and beauty all the men and women she had known were but driftwood on the ripples of her temperament.
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- Last week a group of four high-spirited folksters known as the Weavers had succeeded in shouting, twanging and crooning folk singing out of its cloistered corner.