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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a typeface with thick heavy lines;
[syn: boldface, bold face, bold]


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. fearless and daring;
- Example: "bold settlers on some foreign shore"
- Example: "a bold speech"
- Example: "a bold adventure"

2. clear and distinct;
- Example: "bold handwriting"
- Example: "a figure carved in bold relief"
- Example: "a bold design"

3. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front;
- Example: "a bluff headland"
- Example: "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"
- Example: "a sheer descent of rock"
[syn: bluff, bold, sheer]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bold \Bold\ (b[=o]ld), a. [OE. bald, bold, AS. bald, beald; akin
   to Icel. ballr, OHG. bald, MHG. balt, D. boud, Goth.
   bal[thorn]ei boldness, It. baldo. In Ger. there remains only
   bald, adv. soon. Cf. Bawd, n.]
   1. Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous
      or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
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            Throngs of knights and barons bold.   --Milton.
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   2. Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger;
      planned with courage; daring; vigorous. "The bold design
      leased highly." --Milton.
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   3. In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over
      assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or
      restraint; rude; impudent.
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            Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice.
                                                  --Shak.
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   4. Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules,
      as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in
      composition or expression; as, the figures of an author
      are bold. "Bold tales." --Waller.
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            The cathedral church is a very bold work. --Addison.
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   5. Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous;
      striking the eye; in high relief.
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            Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. Steep; abrupt; prominent.
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            Where the bold cape its warning forehead rears.
                                                  --Trumbull.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bold \Bold\, v. t.
   To make bold or daring. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bold \Bold\, v. i.
   To be or become bold. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bold
    adj 1: fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign
           shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure" [ant:
           timid]
    2: clear and distinct; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in
       bold relief"; "a bold design"
    3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a
       bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England
       rise"; "a sheer descent of rock" [syn: bluff, bold,
       sheer]
    n 1: a typeface with thick heavy lines [syn: boldface, bold
         face, bold]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

161 Moby Thesaurus words for "bold":
   abrupt, adventurous, arrant, arrogant, audacious, aweless,
   barefaced, blatant, bluff, bold as brass, bold-spirited, boldfaced,
   bossed, bossy, brash, brassy, 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