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Bold vs Unabashed - What's the difference?

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Bold is a related term of unabashed.


As adjectives the difference between bold and unabashed

is that bold is courageous, daring while unabashed is not disconcerted or embarrassed.

As a noun bold

is (obsolete) a dwelling; habitation; building.

As a verb bold

is to make (a font or some text) bold.

bold

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bold, from (etyl) bold, blod, bolt, .

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
    • Related terms
    * *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) bold, bald, beald, from (etyl) bald, .

    Adjective

    (boldness) (er)
  • Courageous, daring.
  • *, chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
    • It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  • (of a font) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
  • Presumptuous.
  • * 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
    • even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
    Synonyms
    * (courageous) audacious, brave, courageous, daring, forward * See also
    Related terms
    * embolden

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (a font or some text) bold.
  • (obsolete) To make bold or daring.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (obsolete) To become bold.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    unabashed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not disconcerted or embarrassed.
  • *1866 , ,
  • *:For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed .
  • *1919 , ",
  • *:Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.
  • That are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.
  • *
  • *:
  • *1920 , ,
  • *:; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.

    • Synonyms

    * abashless, composed, poised, undaunted, unaffected, unshamed * abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained