Word Meanings - VENTURESOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VENTURESOME)

• Adventurous
• Bold
• brave
• daring
• enterprising
• courageous
• gallant
• fearless
• venturesome
• rash
• chivalrous
• hazardous
• Audacious
• Insolent
• adventurous
• presumptuous
• valiant
• bold
• reckless
• Daring
• dashing
• dauntless
• foolhardy
• intrepid
• valorous
• Enterprising
• Active
• speculative
• Rash
• Headstrong
• audacious
• hasty
• precipitate
• careless
• thoughtless
• indiscreet
• overventuresome
• incautious
• unwary
• heedless

Related words: (words related to VENTURESOME)

• PRECIPITATELY
  In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• 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.
• INTREPIDLY
  In an intrepid manner; courageously; resolutely.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• GALLANTLY
  In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.
• UNWARY
  1. Not vigilant against danger; not wary or cautious; unguarded; precipitate; heedless; careless. 2. Unexpected; unforeseen; unware. Spenser.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• DASHER
  1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• 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.
• INCAUTIOUS
  Not cautious; not circumspect; not attending to the circumstances on which safety and interest depend; heedless; careless; as, an incautious step; an incautious remark. You . . . incautious tread On fire with faithless embers overspread. Francis.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• RETROACTIVE
  Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or statute , one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to