Bold

Adjective

 * 1) Courageous, daring.
 * 2)  having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface
 * 3) presumptuous.

Verb

 * 1) To make a selected portion of text have a typeface with thicker and heavier strokes.

Adverbs for Bold
offensively; audaciously; impudently; rashly; wantonly; indiscreetly; injudiciously; hotheadedly; foolishly; recklessly; presumptuously; amazingly; shamelessly; tragically; singularly; ridiculously; inexplicably; dramatically; inherently; fantastically; alarmingly; temperamentally; dangerously; courageously; adventurously.

Synonyms for Bold

 * brave, courageous, daring, fearless, determined, intrepid, undaunted, dauntless, valiant, venturesome, adventurous, audacious, stout-hearted, impudent, rude.

Antonyms for Bold
timid, shy, timorous, gentle, meek, backward.

Related terms

 * embolden

Thesaurus
brave, brazen, brazenfaced, breakneck, bumptious, challenging, chased, cheeky, chivalric, chivalrous, clear, cocky, confident, conspicuous, contemptuous, contumelious, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, death-defying, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful, disregardful, distinct, doughty, embossed, eminent, emissile, enterprising, excrescent, excrescential, exhibitionistic, extruding, fearless, fire-eating, fit for sea, flagrant, foolhardy, forward, fresh, gallant, glaring, greathearted, greatly daring, hanging out, hardy, harebrained, headlong, heroic, herolike, immodest, impertinent, impudent, in relief, in the foreground, incautious, insolent, intrepid, ironhearted, jutting, knightlike, knightly, lionhearted, lost to shame, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, manful, manly, nervy, notable, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, ostensible, outstanding, pert, plucky, plunging, precipitous, presumptuous, procacious, prognathous, projecting, prominent, pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, raised, rapid, rash, reckless, regardless of consequences, resolute, salient, sassy, saucy, sea-kindly, seaworthy, shameless, sharp, sheer, smart, smart-alecky, snug, soldierlike, soldierly, stalwart, staring, stark-staring, steep, sticking out, stiff, stout, stouthearted, striking, strong, swaggering, temerarious, tender, unabashed, unafraid, unashamed, unblushing, undaunted, unembarrassed, unmodest, valiant, valorous, venturesome, vertical, vigorous, vivid, waterproof, watertight, weatherly, wild, wild-ass, abrupt, adventurous, arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless, barefaced, blatant, bluff, bold as brass, bold-spirited, boldfaced, bossed, bossy, brash, brassy,

Etymology
bald

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: bald (in some US dialects), bowled
 * Homophones: bald (in some US dialects), bowled
 * Homophones: bald (in some US dialects), bowled

Adjective

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 * Croatian: ,
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 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: julge,
 * Finnish: arastelematon, arkailematon, karski, rohkea, röyhkeä, selväpiirteinen, suorasukainen, urhoollinen, uskalias, voimakas
 * French:, , ,
 * German: mutig, wagemutig
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: אמיץ (amitz), אמיצה (amitza)
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 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: bauld
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: одважан, храбар
 * Roman: odvažan, hrabar
 * Slovak: smelý, odvážny, trúfalý
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: negreta
 * Czech: polotučný, tučný , zvýrazněný
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: lihavoitu
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: דגוש (dagush), בולט (bolet')
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: tłusty, pogrubiony
 * Portuguese:
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 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
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 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Estonian: jultunud, häbematu
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 * Portuguese:
 * Scots: bauld
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Alternative forms

 * boldt

Noun

 * 1) ball

Etymology
Probably representing an earlier *undefined:, *undefined:, from, from an instrumental form of. Compare Old Norse ból:.

Noun

 * 1) house, dwelling, building