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VENTURESOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does venturesome mean? 

VENTURESOME (adjective)
  The adjective VENTURESOME has 1 sense:

1. disposed to venture or take risksplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VENTURESOME (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed to venture or take risks

Synonyms:

audacious; daring; venturesome; venturous

Context example:

a venturous spirit

Similar:

adventuresome; adventurous (willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises)

Derivation:

venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)


 Context examples 


What makes you so venturesome and hardy?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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