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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

... the Great White Queen horrified us. The fearful fate of those who had shared our perils during our adventurous journey to this spectral land of mystery held us dumb in terror ...

— The Great White Queen - A Tale of Treasure and Treason • William Le Queux

... view of the matter was so entirely unromantic, that I scarcely wondered at Mistress Stickles for having run away from him to an adventurous moss-trooper. For nine women out of ten must have some kind of romance or other, to make their lives endurable; and when their love has lost this attractive element, this soft dew-fog (if such it be), the love itself is apt to languish; unless ...

— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore

... lightning foray on the Base. A further search revealed a couple of elliptical balls, quite good in places. So I tipped my cub, Laxey, out of his bunk and we proceeded to resurrect our pre-war form. By-and-by we got adventurous, and Laxey challenged me to play him a match after lunch for ten francs a side. The details required some arranging, as there were no greens or holes, but eventually we decided on a cross-country stroke competition, starting from ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, February 4, 1920 • Various

... Groups of adventurous foreigners soon entered the country. Foreign ministers and their staffs arrived first. Missionaries, concession hunters, traders and commercial ...

— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... more than once of the Treasury and the Indulgence Chamber. The latter is little used now, if at all, possibly because of the rather adventurous approach to it; but in the former the cathedral plate ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See • G. H. Palmer

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