ADVENTUROUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adventurous mean? 

• ADVENTUROUS (adjective)
  The adjective ADVENTUROUS has 1 sense:

1. willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

  Familiarity information: ADVENTUROUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVENTUROUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

Synonyms:

adventuresome; adventurous

Context example:

the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy

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 

Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But it was not destined that our investigation should have so adventurous an ending.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A couple of bounds, a flash of teeth and a frightened squawk, and he had scooped in the adventurous fowl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When we three males were left alone after dinner, he got into a more adventurous state.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jo liked the prospect and was eager to be gone, for the home nest was growing too narrow for her restless nature and adventurous spirit.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Among these he mentioned the gigantic and grotesque stegosaurus, seen once by Mr. Malone at a drinking-place by the lake, and drawn in the sketch-book of that adventurous American who had first penetrated this unknown world.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate; and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance they cannot get—when our will strains after a path we may not follow—we need neither starve from inanition, nor stand still in despair: we have but to seek another nourishment for the mind, as strong as the forbidden food it longed to taste—and perhaps purer; and to hew out for the adventurous foot a road as direct and broad as the one Fortune has blocked up against us, if rougher than it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Go with a friend and relax. (This new moon in Aries suggests you will crave warmth rather than snow.) Aries is an adventurous sign, so a resort that offers various sports might appeal to you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The crime was of interest in itself, but that interest was as nothing to me compared to the inconceivable sequel, which afforded me the greatest shock and surprise of any event in my adventurous life.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)