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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

... young men, full of adventurous spirit, proceed in search of new fields of labour, where they may reap at once the enjoyments of domestic life, whilst they industriously work out the curse that hangs over the Sons ...

— The Bushman - Life in a New Country • Edward Wilson Landor

... was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat: With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought; No courtier could, and scarcely woman can Gird more deceit within a petticoat; Pity he loved adventurous life's variety, He was so great a loss ...

— Don Juan • Lord Byron

... climate. There was a restless energy which fitted him to become the preacher of a new crusade—urging him to throw a haughty defiance in the face of every authority in every country,—an energy which closed his wild adventurous career at the stake." He was distinguished also by a rich fancy, a varied humor, and a chivalrous gallantry, which constantly remind us that the intellectual athlete is an Italian, and an Italian of the ...

— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 6 • Various

... sorry. I didn't mean that my bad traits were inherited from Dad. What I meant was my glorious initiative and craving for novelty. Just at the moment I can't think of anything that would be more interesting or adventurous than going out to Uncle Cassius, and trying to ...

— Kit of Greenacre Farm • Izola Forrester

... frontiersman on a hunting expedition on the Plains, and then seeks employment as a cow-boy on a cattle ranch. His experiences during a "round up" present in picturesque form the toilsome, exciting, adventurous life of a cow-boy; while the perils of a frontier settlement are vividly set forth. Subsequently, the hero joins a wagon-team, and the interest is sustained in a fight with, ...

— Condemned as a Nihilist - A Story of Escape from Siberia • George Alfred Henty

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