Definitions for adventurous
ædˈvɛn tʃər əsad·ven·tur·ous

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. adventurous, adventuresomeadjective

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

   "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. adventurousadjective

   Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.

2. adventurousadjective

   Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Adventurousnoun

   inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied to persons

2. Adventurousnoun

   full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of adventurous in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of adventurous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of adventurous in a Sentence

1. Richard Willard Armour:

   Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

2. Brian Wansink:

   These findings are important to dieters because they show that promoting adventurous eating may provide a way for people– especially women– to lose or maintain weight without feeling restricted by a strict diet, instead of sticking with the same boring salad, start by adding something new.

3. E. V. Lucas:

   One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

4. Sarah Palin:

   As any adventurous Alaskan knows, while you may be down, you’re never out.

5. Randolph Bourne:

   We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

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