| Main Entry: | boldness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | audacity |
Synonyms: |
adventurousness, bravery, chutzpah, courage, daring, dauntlessness, determination, fearlessness, nerve, recklessness |
Antonyms: |
cowardice, fear |
| Main Entry: | assurance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
Synonyms: |
aggressiveness, aplomb, arrogance, assuredness, audacity, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, conviction, coolness, courage, effrontery, faith, firmness, impudence, nerve, poise, positiveness, presumption, security, self-confidence, self-reliance, sureness, surety, temerity, trust |
Antonyms: |
confusion, distrust, doubt, fear, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | audacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recklessness, daring |
Synonyms: |
adventurousness, audaciousness, boldness, bravery, courage, dauntlessness, enterprise, fearlessness, guts, intrepidity, nerve, rashness, valor, venturesomeness |
Antonyms: |
care, carefulness, caution, reserve, timidity |
| Main Entry: | chutzpah |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fearlessness |
Synonyms: |
arrogance, audacity, backbone*, balls, boldness, brass, gall, nerve, spine |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in oneself |
Synonyms: |
aplomb, assurance, backbone, boldness, brashness, certainty, cool, courage, daring, dash, determination, elan, faith in oneself, fearlessness, firmness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart, impudence, intrepidity, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, poise, presumption, reliance, resoluteness, resolution, self-possession, self-reliance, spirit, spunk, sureness, tenacity |
Antonyms: |
uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | defiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disobedience, disregard |
Synonyms: |
affront, audacity, back talk, big talk, boldness, bravado, brazenness, call, cartel, challenge, command, confrontation, contempt, contrariness, contumacy, dare, defy, effrontery, enjoinder, factiousness, gas*, guts*, hot air, impudence, impugnment, insolence, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, intractableness, lip, muster*, opposition, order, perversity, provocation, rebellion, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, revolt, sass, spite, stump, summons, temerity, throwing of the gauntlet, unruliness |
Antonyms: |
acquiescence, obedience, regard, respect, submission, subordination |
| Main Entry: | determination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perseverance |
Synonyms: |
assurance, backbone*, boldness, bravery, certainty, certitude, constancy, conviction, courage, dauntlessness, decision, dedication, doggedness, dogmatism, drive, energy, fearlessness, firm-ness, fortitude, grit, guts*, hardihood, heart*, independence, indomitability, intrepidity, nerve*, obstinacy, persistence, pluck, purpose, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, self-confidence, single-mindedness, spine, spunk*, steadfastness, stiff upper lip, stubbornness, tenacity, valor, willpower |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, doubt, hesitation, irresolution, spinelessness, vacillation |
| Main Entry: | disrespect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disregard, rudeness toward someone |
Synonyms: |
boldness, coarseness, contempt, discourtesy, dishonor, flippancy, hardihood, impertinence, impiety, impoliteness, impudence, incivility, insolence, insolency, insolentness, irreverence, lack of respect, sacrilege, unmannerliness |
Antonyms: |
civility, esteem, honor, regard, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | enterprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resourcefulness, energy |
Synonyms: |
activity, adventurousness, alertness, ambition, audacity, boldness, courage, daring, dash, drive, eagerness, enthusiasm, force, foresight, get-up-and-go, gumption, hustle, industry, initiative, inventiveness, pluck, push, readiness, resource, self-reliance, spirit, venturesomeness, vigor, zeal |
Antonyms: |
apathy, idleness, indolence, passiveness, passivity |
| Main Entry: | face |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pretense, nerve |
Synonyms: |
air, audacity, boldness, brass, cheek, chutzpah*, cloak, confidence, cover, disguise, effrontery, facade, false front, front, gall, impertinence, impudence, mask, presumption, semblance, show, veil |
Antonyms: |
character, personality |