adventurous
/ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/
adventurous adjective: inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
Adjective
adventurous (comparative more adventurous, superlative most adventurous)
- Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects as chefs put bugs back on the menu”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2021, page 32
- Synonyms:
- adventuresome, enterprising, daring, dareful, venturesome, on the go, restless
- Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
- take an adventurous viewpoint
- North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA.2025 April 28, Helen Regan, Michael Rios, Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister, “Putin thanks North Korea for help in Kursk, as Germany criticizes US plan for Ukrainian concessions”, in CNN, archived from the...
- Synonyms:
- rash, foolhardy, presumptuous, hazardous, venturesome
adventurous meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
adventurous in Hindi
- inclined to adventure
- साहसिक sāhsik
adventurous in Tamil
- சாகசமான, துணிவான, துணிகரமான, தைரியமான
adventurous in Marathi
- साहसी
adventurous in Bengali
- দুঃসাহসিক, দুঃসাহসী
More languagesFewer languages
- adventurous in Malayalam
- സാഹസികനായ, സാഹസികത്വമുള്ള, ധീര, ശൂര
- adventurous in Arabic
- مُغَامِر muḡāmir
Examples of adventurous in a sentence
- If you’re feeling adventurous, get on a local bus from Ulaanbaatar to Murun.
- The delinquents are generally the adventurous type, who have little use for reading and other non-active entertainment.
- Adventures and romance only take on their adventurous and romantic qualities at second-hand.
Synonyms of adventurous
- adventuresome
- enterprising
- daring
- dareful
- venturesome
- on the go
- restless
- rash
- foolhardy
- presumptuous
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Antonyms
Forms of adventurous
| comparative | more adventurous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most adventurous |
Origin of adventurous
From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Words formed from adventurous
Questions about adventurous
- What does adventurous mean?
- Adventurous means inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
- What is adventurous in Hindi?
- Adventurous in Hindi is साहसिक (sāhsik). See Adventurous meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adventurous?
- Adventurous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce adventurous?
- Adventurous is pronounced /ædˈvɛn.t͡ʃɚ.əs/ (US).
Words near adventurous in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adventurous (page history and authors); adventurous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adventurous (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); adventurous (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); adventurous (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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