[
UK
/bˈəʊld/
]
[ US /ˈboʊɫd/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊɫd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
a sheer descent of rock
a bluff headland
where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise -
fearless and daring
a bold adventure
a bold speech
bold settlers on some foreign shore -
clear and distinct
bold handwriting
a figure carved in bold relief
a bold design
NOUN
- a typeface with thick heavy lines
How To Use bold In A Sentence
- Using a bold colour such as yellow is risky. Times, Sunday Times
- This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
- Physical and mental energy return so you turn vague ideas into bold action. The Sun
- Of course, the kobold’s nonexistence is no reason to stop playing the game … Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
- If you want my opinion, it's a bastard of a game - swift, bold and beautiful.
- And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
- The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
- The vital factor he boldly designates "entelechy", or "psychoid", and advocated a return to Aristotle for the most helpful conception of the principle of life. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
- I quote it at length, with O'Reilly's rather selective quotation in boldface.
- Apparently some creature called a kobold escaped from wherever my grandfather trapped it, and it has teamed up with Milo. Master of Mirrors
