1. Fearless and daring
   "a bold adventure"; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"
    
2. Clear, strong or striking in appearance
   "a bold design"; "bold handwriting"; "a figure carved in bold relief"
    
3. Excessively forward
   "His bold behaviour at the meeting was inappropriate";
   - assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
    
4. Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
   "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise";
   - bluff, sheer

1. A typeface with thick heavy lines
   "The headlines were printed in bold face";
   - boldface, bold face

Sounds like: bowled

Derived forms: bolder, boldest, bolds

See also: adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, boldness, brave, conspicuous, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, emboldened, fearless, foolhardy, forward, hardihood, hardiness, hardy, heady, heroic, heroical [archaic], intrepid, nervy, overreaching, overvaliant, rash, reckless, steep, temerarious, temerous [rare], unafraid, unfearing, vaulting

Type of: case, face, font, fount [Brit], typeface

Antonym: timid

Encyclopedia: Bold, Samuel