Adventurous Definition

ăd-vĕnchər-əs
adjective
Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises.
American Heritage
Fond of adventure; willing to take chances; daring.
Webster's New World
Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky.
Adventurous travels.
American Heritage
Full of danger; risky.
Webster's New World

(of a person) Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.

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Origin of Adventurous

  • From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux)

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Adventurous Sentence Examples

  • It was adventurous, small, scattered and unstable.

  • Academic studies were, however, not suited to his active and adventurous character.

  • On the 28th of July he managed to escape from the island in a fishing-boat, and after an adventurous voyage he reached Algiers on the 3rd of August.

  • As a young man Henry had been chivalrous and adventurous, and in politics anxious for good government and justice.

  • Nor does the poet lack power and vigour when an adventurous story is to be told.

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