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/ædvˈɛntʃərəs/ /ədvˈɛntʃərəs/ Listen

adjective

Adventurous adj.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; applied to persons. "Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve."

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

Synonyms: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring; hazardous; venturesome. See Rash.

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Etymology of 'Adventurous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adventurous" Quotes from Famous Books

... were not zealous Christians. Among them were vast numbers of the restless, idle, profligate, and adventurous spirit of the time. Some became Crusaders for the love of change; some, in the hope of plunder; some, because they had nothing to do at home; some, because they did what the priests told them; some, ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... abhorrent to the eye of Cosmo; in other parts by walls of earth, called dykes, which delighted his very soul. These were covered with grass for the vagrant cow, sprinkled with loveliest little wild flowers for the poet-peasant, burrowed in by wild bees for the adventurous delight of the honey-drawn school-boy. Glad I am they had not quite vanished from Scotland before I was sent thither, but remained to help me get ready for the kingdom of heaven: those dykes must still be dear to my ...

— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... wind modified slightly. Taylor and Atkinson went up to the Ramp thermometer screen. After this, entirely without my knowledge, two adventurous spirits, Atkinson and Gran, decided to start off over the floe, making respectively for the north and south Bay thermometers, 'Archibald' and 'Clarence.' This was at 5.30; Gran was back by dinner at 6.45, and it was only later that I learned that ...

— Scott's Last Expedition Volume I • Captain R. F. Scott

... the street with several of my friends, Pompeo went by, attended by ten men very well armed; and when he came just opposite, he stopped, as though about to pick a quarrel with myself. My companions, brave and adventurous young men, made signs to me to draw my sword; but it flashed through my mind that if I drew, some terrible mischief might result for persons who were wholly innocent. Therefore I considered that it would be better if ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

... set out for that place, and after a somewhat adventurous journey arrived at the Market Street wharf about eight or nine o'clock ...

— Benjamin Franklin • Paul Elmer More

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