From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adventurous \Ad*ven"tur*ous\, adjective [OE. aventurous, aunterous, OF. aventuros, F. aventureux, fr. aventure. See {Adventure}, noun]
1. 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. --Milton.
2. Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Syn: Rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring; hazardous; venturesome. See {Rash}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: 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
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