Venturesome \Ven"ture*some\, a.
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger;
venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy
or act. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
venturesome
adj 1: involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport";
"extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a
venturesome journey in wintertime"; "a venturous
enterprise" [syn: hazardous, risky, venturous]
2: willing to try new things and take risks; "there is a new
venturesome spirit among young people today"
3: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the
total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of
two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary
fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous
spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "venturesome":
adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, aleatory, ambitious,
audacious, bold, brave, chancy, courageous, daredevil, daring,
determined, dicey, doughty, driving, dynamic, enterprising,
experimental, fearless, foolhardy, forceful, full of risk, game,
go-ahead, hazardous, hustling, intrepid, overbold, plucky, pushful,
pushing, pushy, rash, reckless, resolute, riskful, risky,
speculative, spirited, sporting, stalwart, stout, sturdy,
temerarious, tentative, trial, up-and-coming, venturous, wildcat,
willing
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
audacious, daring, hazardous, risky, venturous
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