Meaning

4 senses

  1. (US)Audacious and unrestrained.

    If you’re going to lie, you might as well tell a bodacious lie.

    unverfroren, dreist

    unrestrained by convention or propriety

  2. (US)Incorrigible and insolent.

    You, sir, are a bodacious scoundrel.

    rüde, beleidigend, unverbesserlich

    incorrigible

  3. (Australia, US, slang)Impressively great in size, and enormous; extraordinary.

    groß

  4. Sexy, attractive.

    attraktiv, sexy

Examples

1 sentences

  1. She's totally bodacious.

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Translations

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By meaning 4
audacious and unrestrained:
uncorrigible and insolent:
great in size:
attractive:

Origin

Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily,

Southern American slang, implied by bodaciously, 1837, either from bodyaciously (“bodily, totally, root and branch”, antebellum South Carolina)

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Forms

more bodacious, most bodacious
Comparativemore bodacious Lesson
Superlativemost bodacious Lesson

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Derivedbodaciouslybodaciousnessbodalicious

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bobcatbobtailbodbodebodge

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