Adventurous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adventurous \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.
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              Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger;
        requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an
        adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
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     Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring;
          hazardous; venturesome. See {Rash}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adventurous
       adj : willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring
             enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and
             gains of an adventuresome economy" [syn: {adventuresome}]
             [ant: {unadventurous}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "adventurous":
     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