Antonyms for bolder


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bohld
Phonetic Transcription : boÊŠld


Definition of bolder

Origin :
  • Old English beald (West Saxon), bald (Anglian) "bold, brave, confident, strong," from Proto-Germanic *balthaz (cf. Old High German bald "bold, swift," in names such as Archibald, Leopold, Theobald; Gothic balþei "boldness;" Old Norse ballr "frightful, dangerous"), perhaps from PIE *bhol-to- suffixed form of *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole).
  • Of flavors (coffee, etc.) from 1829. The noun meaning "those who are bold" is from c.1300. Old French and Provençal baut "bold," Italian baldo "bold, daring, fearless" are Germanic loan-words.
  • adj brave
  • adj brazen, insolent
  • adj bright, striking
Example sentences :
  • Vaudemont, you are bolder in hunting, they tell me, than you are at whist.
  • Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • It was a situation which might have abashed a bolder ruffian.
  • Extract from : « The Avenger » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • A bolder and more rebellious thought was his real legacy to his age.
  • Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
  • These, also, make easier and bolder the electrician's tasks.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
  • Then she got bolder, and openly asked to see Golden, and talk with her.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Some persons who were bolder went down, and saw the same thing.
  • Extract from : « The Phantom World » by Augustin Calmet
  • Let no man tell me, sir, that this is not a bolder effort than the other.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • I would that I were capable of something better, bolder, and more manly than this.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • But one, bolder than the rest, snatching a brand from the hearth, relit the candles.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Thereupon the bolder of the two informed the count that he had had no dinner.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

Synonyms for bolder

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