Audacious vs. Reckless

Audaciousadjective

Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.

Recklessadjective

Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.

Audaciousadjective

Impudent.

Recklessadjective

Indifferent to danger or the consequences.

Audaciousadjective

Daring; spirited; adventurous.

‘As in a cloudy chair, ascending ridesAudacious.’;

Recklessadjective

Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.

Audaciousadjective

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent.

Recklessadjective

Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.

‘It made the king as reckless as them diligent.’;

Audaciousadjective

Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.

Recklessadjective

marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences;

‘foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker’; ‘became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans’; ‘a reckless driver’; ‘a rash attempt to climb the World Trade Center’;

Audaciousadjective

invulnerable to fear or intimidation;

‘audacious explorers’; ‘fearless reporters and photographers’; ‘intrepid pioneers’;

Recklessadjective

characterized by careless unconcerned;

‘the heedless generosity and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large fortunes’; ‘reckless squandering of public funds’;

Audaciousadjective

unrestrained by convention or propriety;

‘an audacious trick to pull’; ‘a barefaced hypocrite’; ‘the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim’; ‘bold-faced lies’; ‘brazen arrogance’; ‘the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress’;

Audaciousadjective

disposed to venture or take risks;

‘audacious visions of the total conquest of space’; ‘an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas’; ‘the most daring of contemporary fiction writers’; ‘a venturesome investor’; ‘a venturous spirit’;