1.
[syn: adventurous, adventuresome]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
adventurous
adj 1: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring
enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains
of an adventuresome economy" [syn: adventurous,
adventuresome] [ant: unadventurous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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