bold
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English bold, bolde, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-West Germanic *balþ, from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”).
Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”). Perhaps related to Albanian ballë (“forehead”) and Old Prussian balo (“forehead”). Compare typologically Italian affrontare (“to face, to deal with”), sfrontato (“bold, daring, insolent”), both from Latin frons (“forehead”).
Inflected forms:
form: bolder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bold
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: boldest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bold
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bolds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bolding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bolded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bolded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Courageous, daring.
pos: adj
examples: Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.
It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
gloss: Visually striking; conspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: the painter's bold use of colour and outline
gloss: Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
pos: adj
examples: Many bold fonts are available on this computer.
In HTML, wrapping text in <b> and </b> tags produces bold text.
gloss: Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
pos: adj
examples: […] even the boldeſt and moſt affirmative Philoſophy, which has ever attempted to impoſe its crude Dictates and Principles on Mankind.
gloss: Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
examples: All of her children are terribly bold and never do as they are told.
gloss: Full-bodied.
pos: adj
gloss: Pornographic; depicting nudity.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
examples: The government warned bus operators against continuing to show bold content on buses.
gloss: Steep or abrupt.
pos: adj
examples: The grounds descend with a bold slope to the water's edge, and rise finely upwards above the mansion, abounding with fine trees, and ornamented by a range of building at a distance, in a corresponding style […]
gloss: To make (a font or some text) bold.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Please bold all these subheads.
gloss: To make bold or daring.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] for this buſines,
It touches vs, as France inuades our land
Not bolds the King, with others whome I feare,
Moſt iuſt and heauy cauſes make oppoſe.
gloss: To become bold or brave.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Synonyms: embolden
Related words: bield
bolden
boldness
embolden
Derived words: blackboard bold
boldacious
bold as brass
boldface
bold-faced
boldfaced
bold film
boldhead
bold-hearted
boldish
boldly
bold move, Cotton
bold movie
boldship
bold star
demibold
extrabold
fortune favors the bold
fortune favours the bold
if I may be so bold
make bold
nonbold
overbold
semibold
superbold
ultrabold
unbold
nonbolded
unbolded
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