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ventrous

ventrous is the obsolete spelling of venturous.

Meaning of venturous

Adjective

venturous (comparative more venturous, superlative most venturous)

  1. Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
    • [H]e ſhewed me a ſtately Palace, and how the People were clad in Gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous Man and cut his way through the armed men that ſtood in the door to keep him out; and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal Glory.1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by...

Forms of ventrous

comparativemore ventrous
superlativemost ventrous
alternative formvent'rous

Questions about ventrous

What is ventrous the obsolete spelling of?
Ventrous is the obsolete spelling of venturous.

Words near ventrous in the dictionary

  1. ventrosity
  2. ventrostriatal
  3. ventrosublateral
  4. ventrosubmedian
  5. ventrotemporal
  6. ventrous
  7. ventrovegetal
  8. ventroventral
  9. ventroversion
  10. ventroversions
  11. ventrum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ventrous (page history and authors); venturous (page history and authors). 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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