effrontery
3 synonyms and 3 antonyms for effrontery, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Rude and shameless boldness.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
presumptuousness
Antonyms
Etymology
Borrowed in the late 17th century from French effronterie, itself from effronté (“shameless, insolent”), which came from Old French esfronté, from Vulgar Latin *exfrontātus. Compare Latin effrōns (“barefaced”), formed from the prefix ex- (“from”) and frōns (“forehead”; related to English front). By surface analysis, it...
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