Word Meanings - VENTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. I, in this venture, double gains pursue. Dryden. 2. An event that is not, or can

Additional info about word: VENTURE

1. An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation. I, in this venture, double gains pursue. Dryden. 2. An event that is not, or can not be, foreseen; an accident; chance; hap; contingency; luck. Bacon. 3. The thing put to hazard; a stake; a risk; especially, something sent to sea in trade. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. At a venture, at hazard; without seeing the end or mark; without foreseeing the issue; at random. A certain man drew a bow at a venture. 1 Kings xxii. 34. A bargain at a venture made. Hudibras. Note: The phrase at a venture was originally at aventure, that is, at adventure.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VENTURE)

• Adventure
• Incident
• crisis
• chance
• hazard
• occurrence
• event
• enterprise
• casualty
• undertaking
• experiment
• venture
• trial
• romance
• Danger
• Peril
• risk
• jeopardy
• insecurity
• Dare
• Venture
• face
• brave
• defy
• challenge
• uncertainty
• unsafety
• Presume
• Suppose
• anticipate
• apprehend
• take for granted
• conjecture
• believe
• deem

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VENTURE)

• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede
• Computation
• calculation
• inference
• reckoning
• proof
• deduction

Related words: (words related to VENTURE)

• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• COMPUTATION
  1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• APPREHEND
  of, seize; prae before + -hendere ; akin to Gr. 1. To take or seize; to take hold of. We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor. 2. Hence: To take or seize by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal. 3. To take hold of with
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• MISCOMPUTATION
  Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.