adventurous

Speech parts

1. adventurous - Noun

2. adventurous - Adjective

Meaning

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hazardous daring rash foolhardy enterprising venturesome adventuresome presumptuous romanesque hardy trojan randy doughty dauntless gallant
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Antonyms

unadventurous nervous shy timid craven sissy
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Related terms

adventure adventurer adventuresome adventurism

Phrases with the word

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Examples

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. Elizabeth Taylor

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman. Niccolò Machiavelli

Art, industry, and commerce, so long crushed and overborne, were stirring into renewed life, and a crowd of adventurous men, nurtured in war and incapable of repose, must seek employment for their restless energies in fields of peaceful enterprise. Francis Parkman

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket. Victor Hugo

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man. George Mallory

Adventures are to the adventurous. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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