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VENTURESOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does venturesome mean?
• VENTURESOME (adjective)
The adjective VENTURESOME has 1 sense:
1. disposed to venture or take risks
Familiarity information: VENTURESOME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed to venture or take risks
Synonyms:
audacious; daring; venturesome; venturous
Context example:
a venturous spirit
Similar:
adventuresome; adventurous (willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises)
Derivation:
venturesomeness (the trait of being adventurous)
Context examples
What makes you so venturesome and hardy?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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