BOLD | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of bold in English boldadjective uk /bəʊld/ us /boʊld/

bold adjective (BRAVE)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 not frightened of danger: make the bold move The team made the bold move of trading its star player. take the bold step The newspaper took the bold step of publishing the names of the men involved. She was a bold and fearless climber. Synonym brave brave

• braveThe King was a brave warrior.
• courageousShe was a courageous woman who never complained about her illness.
• daringHe made a daring escape from his kidnappers.
• boldI wasn't bold enough to leave my job.
• adventurousShe's a very adventurous person and enjoys mountain climbing.

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• Politicians tried to dress up the bill as a bold new strategy for combatting poverty.
• I thought I'd be bold and make a fashion statement.
• Ending negotiations was seen as a bold stroke by many commentators.
• Of the three organizations criticized, only one was bold enough to face the press.
• The plan to escape was bold and simple.

Brave and courageous

• adventurous
• adventurously
• audacious
• ballsy
• be man enough to do something idiom
• fearless
• fearlessly
• gallant
• gallantly
• get up phrasal verb
• man up phrasal verb
• manfully
• muster something up phrasal verb
• nerves of steel idiom
• pluck
• unflinchingly
• unperturbed
• valiant
• valiantly
• valorously

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bold adjective (NOTICEABLE)

B1 strong in colour or shape, and very noticeable to the eye: bold colour They painted the kitchen in bold colours.  in bold (type/print) printed in thick dark letters: This sentence is printed in bold. See more Apparent and obvious

• (from) under your nose idiom
• apparent
• be (as) plain as the nose on your face idiom
• be (right) under your nose idiom
• be etched somewhere idiom
• be writ large idiom
• flagrantly
• foregone conclusion
• glaringly
• hard and fast
• obtrude
• over-obvious
• overexplicit
• overt
• overtly
• palpable
• unsubtly
• visibly
• wonder
• written all over someone's face idiom

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bold adjective (NOT SHY)

not shy, especially in a way that shows no respect: He was a bold and defiant little boy. certain of your abilities or value

• confidentHe was confident that his approach would work best.
• assuredShe gave an assured performance to a packed concert hall.
• self-assuredThe interview showed her as a very self-assured woman.
• self-confidentHe was self-confident and sure he'd get the job.
• assertiveYou'll have to be more assertive if you want to be promoted.
• boldHe was a bold and defiant little boy.

See more results » Rude and cheeky

• backchat
• bad-mannered
• cheekily
• cheekiness
• cheeky
• churlishly
• churlishness
• cocky
• neanderthal
• non-diplomatic
• obnoxious
• obnoxiously
• obnoxiousness
• offensively
• offensiveness
• sass
• unceremonious
• unpleasant
• vulgarity
• vulgarly

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Confidence & self-assurance

Related words

boldly boldness

Idioms

(as) bold as brass if I may be/make so bold (as to) boldverb [ T ] uk/bəʊld/ us/boʊld/ to print letters or words in thick dark letters on a page or screen: I went through the list bolding some of the items. You can click on bolded words to hear their pronunciation.

• By bolding the word "experienced," she hopes to downplay the fact she has spent fewer years in office than any other candidate.
• I'd like to focus on the points that I've bolded.
• Draw attention to your skills and attributes on your CV by underlining them, bolding them, or indenting them as bullet points.

Publishing: printing & word processing

• 3-D printing
• bed
• boldface
• boldfaced
• bolding
• hanging indent
• impression
• imprint
• in italics
• indent
• plaintext
• pre-print
• pre-printed
• pre-publish
• preprint
• swash
• typeface
• typesetter
• typographical
• typographical error

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bold | American Dictionary

boldadjective [ -er/-est only ] us /boʊld/

bold adjective [-er/-est only] (BRAVE)

Add to word list Add to word list brave, or without fear: He is a qualified politician with bold ideas. Bold can also mean not shy, and almost rude: She was friendly without being bold.

bold adjective [-er/-est only] (NOTICEABLE)

likely to attract your attention; showy: The costumes were in beautiful, bold colors.

boldly

adverb us /ˈboʊld·li/ He dealt boldly with the problem and hoped he was right. (Definition of bold from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of bold

bold Results are also given in bold for cold targets with the same mass thickness as the two plasma targets. From the Cambridge English Corpus Admittedly, it is bold to imagine that physicians or patients will become deep ecologists or environmental partisans any time soon. From the Cambridge English Corpus Neural organization is a bold and ambitious attempt to outline some of the common threads in the constant flux of neuroscience research. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is a bold and ambitious idea, but there are some problems. From the Cambridge English Corpus The most important addition is the insertion of short highlights and conclusions in bold letters throughout the text, on almost every page. From the Cambridge English Corpus Residues indicated in bold print are conserved among at least 50 % of the sequences compared. From the Cambridge English Corpus This is a bold attempt to synthesise disparate, confusing and incomplete data. From the Cambridge English Corpus The figures in parentheses indicate the tenures of employment (the bold lines) expressed in months. From the Cambridge English Corpus The highest and the lowest values are shown in bold (n = 3, range in parentheses). From the Cambridge English Corpus Only the attended-speech condition matches the normal ogive (bold solid line). From the Cambridge English Corpus Bold typeface is meant to distinguish vector-fields and spaces containing them. From the Cambridge English Corpus He also mentioned a bold and confident disposition, though the latter might better be viewed as a passion or disposition enhanced by the former circumstances. From the Cambridge English Corpus She creates novel structures from the most commonplace resources, and incorporates bold experimentation into engaging, exuberant grooves. From the Cambridge English Corpus The early eighteenth-century activities of the vestry were unusually bold across a wide front. From the Cambridge English Corpus Numbers in bold are estimated coefficients; numbers in parentheses are their panel-corrected standard errors; numbers in italics are p-values from one-sided t-tests. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of bold These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of bold?

Translations of bold

in Chinese (Traditional) 勇敢的, 勇敢的，無畏的, 突出的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 勇敢的, 勇敢的，无畏的, 突出的… See more in Spanish atrevido, llamativo, pronunciado… See more in Portuguese audaz, arrojado, atrevido… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian धीट, धाडसी, रंगाने किंवा आकाराने मजबूतआणि डोळ्यात भरणारे… See more （色や形が）力強い, 勇敢な, 大胆な… See more atak, cüretkâr, cesur… See more audacieux/-euse, gras/grasse, hardi… See more vistós, marcat, valent… See more stoutmoedig, fors, vet… See more ஆபத்தை கண்டு பயப்படவில்லை, நிறம் அல்லது வடிவத்தில் வலுவானது, மற்றும் கண்ணுக்கு தெரியக்கூடியது… See more साहसी, साहसिक, (रंग… See more સાહસિક, નીડર, હિંમતવાન… See more dristig, tydelig, livlig… See more djärv, vågad, kraftig… See more berani, jelas dan ketara, tebal… See more kühn, deutlich, ins Auge fallend… See more modig, dristig, fet… See more بیباک, تیز… See more сміливий, чіткий, підкреслений… See more సాహసం, రంగు లేక ఆకృతిలో బలంగా ఉండటం మరియు కంటికి చాలా గుర్తించగలిగేలా ఉండటం… See more সাহসী, বিপদে ভীত নন, গাঢ়… See more smělý, výrazný, tučný… See more berani, mencolok, tebal… See more กล้าหาญ, สะดุดตา, หนาและชัดเจน… See more táo bạo, nổi bật, rõ nét… See more śmiały, odważny, pogrubiony… See more 대담한, 용감한… See more netto, deciso, vistoso… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of bold

• boldface
• boldfaced
• bold face, at boldface
• bold faced, at boldfaced
• bold faced, at boldface
• in bold (type/print) phrase
• (as) bold as brass idiom

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• in bold (type/print) phrase
• (as) bold as brass idiom
• if I may be/make so bold (as to) idiom

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  • Adjective 
    • bold (BRAVE)
    • bold (NOTICEABLE)
    • in bold (type/print)
    • bold (NOT SHY)
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• American   
  • Adjective 
    • bold (BRAVE)
    • bold (NOTICEABLE)
  • Adverb 
    • boldly
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