different between audacious vs doughty

English

Etymology

From Latin audacia (“boldness”), from audax (“bold”), from aude? (“I am bold, I dare”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA^(key): /???de???s/
• (US) enPR: ô-d??sh?s IPA^(key): /??de???s/
• Rhymes: -e???s

Adjective

audacious (comparative more audacious, superlative most audacious)

1. Showing willingness to take bold risks; recklessly daring.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     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.
2. Impudent, insolent.

Synonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): bold, daring, temeritous, temerarious

Antonyms

• (willing to take bold risks): shy, cautious, prudent

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Further reading

• audacious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• audacious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• audacious at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

The adjective is derived from Middle English doughti, dou?ty (“brave, bold, valiant; fierce, strong; bold warrior; excellent, honourable, noble, worthy; handsome, splendid; excellent or worthy person”) [and other forms], from Old English dohti?, dyhti? (“competent, doughty, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duht?g, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewg?- (“to produce (something useful); to be strong, have force”). The English word may be analysed as dought +? -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”).

The noun is derived from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?ti/, [-?i]
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [?d????i] (Canadian raising)
• Rhymes: -a?ti

Adjective

doughty (comparative doughtier or more doughty, superlative doughtiest or most doughty)

1. (dated or archaic) Bold; brave, courageous.

   Synonyms: dauntless, fearless, intrepid, resolute, stouthearted, valiant; see also Thesaurus:brave

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:cowardly

Derived terms

• dought
• doughtily
• doughtiness
• doughty-handed

Translations

Noun

doughty (plural doughties)

1. (archaic, rare) A person who is bold or brave.

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References

Middle English

Adjective

doughty

1. Alternative form of dou?ty