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Adventurous synonyms
ăd-vĕn'chər-əs
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bold
Strong or pronounced; prominent:
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  1. Strong or pronounced; prominent:
  2. Clear and distinct to the eye; conspicuous:
  3. Fearless and daring; courageous:
adventuresome
Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
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  1. Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
  2. Willing to take risks; adventurous
  3. Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
courageous
Having or showing courage; brave
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  1. Having or showing courage; brave
  2. Of an action, that requires courage.
  3. Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
adventuresome
Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
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  1. Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
  2. Willing to take risks; adventurous
  3. Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.
audacious
Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold.
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  1. Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold.
  2. Not restrained by a sense of shame or propriety; rudely bold; brazen
  3. Bold or daring; fearless
bold
Strong or pronounced; prominent:
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  1. Strong or pronounced; prominent:
  2. Fearless and daring; courageous:
  3. Clear and distinct to the eye; conspicuous:
daredevil
Recklessly bold.
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  1. Recklessly bold.
daring
Courageous, or showing bravery.
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  1. Courageous, or showing bravery.
  2. Involving great risk or danger:
  3. Adventurous, willing to take on or look for risks.
enterprising
Displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task.
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  1. Displaying bravery and daring in the attempt of some task.
  2. Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects:
  3. Being very able and ingenious in business dealings.
venturesome
Involving danger or risk; risky; hazardous
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  1. Involving danger or risk; risky; hazardous
  2. Involving risk or danger; hazardous:
  3. Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous.
chancy
(Scot.) Bringing good luck
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  1. (Scot.) Bringing good luck
  2. Subject to chance; random
  3. Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous.
dangerous
Being able or likely to do harm.
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  1. Being able or likely to do harm.
  2. Involving or filled with danger; perilous.
  3. Full of danger; likely to cause injury, pain, etc.; unsafe; perilous
hazardous
Marked by danger; perilous.
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  1. Marked by danger; perilous.
  2. Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
  3. Risky; dangerous; perilous
parlous
(Archaic) Dangerously clever; cunning, mischievous, shrewd, etc.
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  1. (Archaic) Dangerously clever; cunning, mischievous, shrewd, etc.
  2. Attended with peril; dangerous; risky.
  3. (Literary) Perilous; dangerous; risky
perilous
Full of or involving peril; dangerous or risky.
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  1. Full of or involving peril; dangerous or risky.
  2. Involving peril or risk; dangerous
risky
Dangerous, involving risks.
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  1. Dangerous, involving risks.
  2. Involving risk; hazardous; dangerous
treacherous
Giving a false appearance of safety or reliability; untrustworthy or insecure
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  1. Giving a false appearance of safety or reliability; untrustworthy or insecure
  2. Guilty of or characterized by betrayal of confidence or trust; perfidious.
  3. Characterized by unforeseen or hidden hazards; dangerous or deceptive:
unsafe
Not safe; dangerous.
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  1. Not safe; dangerous.
venturesome
Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous.
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  1. Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous.
  2. Involving danger or risk; risky; hazardous
  3. Potentially hazardous; risky.
hairy
(Slang) Difficult, distressing, harrowing, etc.
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  1. (Slang) Difficult, distressing, harrowing, etc.
  2. (Slang) Fraught with difficulties; hazardous:
  3. Difficult, complex, intricate, or intimidating.
Find another word for adventurous. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for adventurous, like: bold, adventuresome, courageous, brave, adventuresome, audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, enterprising and venturesome.

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  • 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.

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

  • His adversaries vainly endeavoured to gain him by favour, for as court-marshal and senator he was still more hostile to the dominant patricians who followed the adventurous policy of Magnus de la Gardie.

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