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ADVENTUROUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises
Example:
the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy
Synonyms:
adventuresome; adventurous
Classified under:
Similar:
audacious; daring; venturesome; venturous (disposed to venture or take risks)
sporting (involving risk or willingness to take a risk)
swaggering; swashbuckling (flamboyantly adventurous)
Also:
bold (fearless and daring)
brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)
incautious (lacking in caution)
Antonym:
unadventurous (lacking in boldness)
Derivation:
adventure (a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful))
adventurousness (the trait of being adventurous)
Context examples:
The horror of being blocked up at Randalls, while her children were at Hartfield, was full in her imagination; and fancying the road to be now just passable for adventurous people, but in a state that admitted no delay, she was eager to have it settled, that her father and Emma should remain at Randalls, while she and her husband set forward instantly through all the possible accumulations of drifted snow that might impede them.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sterndale sat down with a gasp, overawed for, perhaps, the first time in his adventurous life.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Laurie devoted himself to the little ones, rode his small daughter in a bushel-basket, took Daisy up among the bird's nests, and kept adventurous Rob from breaking his neck.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It seems to me, at this distance of time, as if it were the next day when Peggotty broached the striking and adventurous proposition I am about to mention; but it was probably about two months afterwards.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So near did the wolves approach, that the dogs became frantic with terror, and it was necessary to replenish the fire from time to time in order to keep the adventurous marauders at safer distance.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Aries is an adventurous sign, so it seems you may be making your money from a new business venture, one related to high tech or that has you working on a new product or service never seen before.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
