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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;
- Example: "adventurous pioneers"
- Example: "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
[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. [1913 Webster] Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song. [1913 Webster] Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring; hazardous; venturesome. See Rash. [1913 Webster]
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