Adventurous
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, or other major life undertakings.
The word adventuress can mean a female who enjoys or partakes in adventures, but (particularly in older literature) it can also have the negative connotation of one who schemes for material advancement by the use her sexuality; a gold digger As an instance of the latter the Oxford English Dictionary cites “Our Adventuress had the pickings of a few Feathers from an old Gentleman who fell in Love with her”.
Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.
Adventurous (adjective)
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur risks; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring.
Adventurous (adjective)
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash.
Adventure (noun)
The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.
Adventure (noun)
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event
“A life full of adventures.”
Adventure (noun)
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure (noun)
A feeling of desire for new and exciting things
“his sense of adventure”
Adventure (noun)
A text adventure or an adventure game.
Adventure (noun)
That which happens by chance; hazard; hap
Adventure (noun)
Chance of danger or loss.
Adventure (noun)
Risk; danger; peril.
Adventure (verb)
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
Adventure (verb)
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Adventure (verb)
To try the chance; to take the risk.
Adventurous (adjective)
willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences
“an adventurous traveller”
Adventurous (adjective)
involving new ideas or methods
“they wanted more adventurous meals”
Adventurous (adjective)
full of excitement
“my life couldn’t be more adventurous”
Adventure (noun)
an unusual and exciting or daring experience
“her recent adventures in Italy”
Adventure (noun)
excitement associated with danger or the taking of risks
“she travelled the world in search of adventure”
Adventure (noun)
a reckless or potentially hazardous action or enterprise
“in any military adventure, the first casualty is truth”
Adventure (noun)
a commercial venture
“I sold my East India adventure of £250 principal for £750”
Adventure (verb)
engage in daring or risky activity
“they had adventured into the forest”
Adventure (verb)
put (one’s money or life) at risk
“he adventured £300 in the purchase of land”