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Meaning of ADVENTUROUS

Pronunciation:  ad'venchurus

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[adj]  willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
 

ADVENTUROUS is a 11 letter word that starts with A.

 

 Synonyms: adventuresome, audacious, daring, sporting, swaggering, swashbuckling, venturesome, venturous
 
 Antonyms: unadventurous
 
 See Also: bold, brave, courageous, fearless, incautious

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ad*ven"tur*ous\, a. [OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF.
aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, n.]
1. Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to
   embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied
   to persons.
         Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
                                               --Milton.
2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger;
   requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an
   adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring;
     hazardous; venturesome. See {Rash}.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: adventuresome, adversary, aggressive, aleatory, ambitious, antagonist, anti, assaulter, attacker, audacious, bold, brash, brave, chancy, con, courageous, daredevil, daring, death-defying, devil-may-care, dicey, doughty, driving, dynamic, enterprising, fire-eating, foolhardy, forceful, forward, full of risk, go-ahead, harebrained, hazardous, hotheaded, hustling, impetuous, imprudent, intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, match, opposer, oppugnant, overbold, overconfident, presumptuous, pushful, pushing, pushy, rash, reckless, riskful, risky, speculative, temerarious, up-and-coming, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass, wildcat
 

 

 

 

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