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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adventurous" Quotes from Famous Books

... felt the "absolute need of a Teaching Church to preserve and to interpret the truths of Christianity to each succeeding generation." Once convinced of this, argument mattered little. Hugh was entirely fearless, adventurous, and independent; he had no ambitions in the ordinary sense of the word; that is to say he made no frontal attack upon promotion or respect. He was not what is called a "safe" man; he had neither caution or prudence, nor any regard for average opinion. I do not think he ever gave ...

— Hugh - Memoirs of a Brother • Arthur Christopher Benson

... Our journey was not adventurous; nor will I waste time in telling overmuch about it. We visited the shrine, where the Maid passed a night in fasting and vigil, and laid thereon a little simple offering, such as her humble state permitted. The next day she was presented to the Duke ...

— A Heroine of France • Evelyn Everett-Green

... misery, Not once perceive their foul disfigurement, But boast themselves more comely than before, And all their friends and native home forget, To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty. Therefore, when any favoured of high Jove Chances to pass through this adventurous glade, Swift as the sparkle of a glancing star 80 I shoot from heaven, to give him safe convoy, As now I do. But first I must put off These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof, And take the weeds ...

— Milton's Comus • John Milton

... supper—at least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim did three-fourths of the work. Tom's younger brother (or rather half-brother) Sid was already through with his part of the work (picking up chips), for he was a quiet boy, and had no adventurous, troublesome ways. ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... more than the soldier telegrapher could bear patiently. He took his Springfield rifle out into the fields, and opened a long range fire on these adventurous redskins. ...

— Starlight Ranch - and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier • Charles King

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