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ADVENTURESOME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adventuresome mean? 

ADVENTURESOME (adjective)
  The adjective ADVENTURESOME has 1 sense:

1. willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprisesplay

  Familiarity information: ADVENTURESOME used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ADVENTURESOME (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

Synonyms:

adventuresome; adventurous

Context example:

the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy

Similar:

audacious; daring; venturesome; venturous (disposed to venture or take risks)

sporting (involving risk or willingness to take a risk)

swaggering; swashbuckling (flamboyantly adventurous)

Also:

bold (fearless and daring)

brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)

incautious (lacking in caution)


 Context examples 


On Valentine’s Day, Venus, the love-me planet, will be in adventuresome Aries, and Mars will still be in Sagittarius, so both will be in lively, vibrant fire signs that blend ideally with your air sign.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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