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Adventuresome

Adventuresome \Ad*ven"ture*some\, a. Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
adventuresome

1731, from adventure + -some (1).

Wiktionary
adventuresome

a. prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.

WordNet
adventuresome

adj. willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy" [syn: adventurous] [ant: unadventurous]

Usage examples of "adventuresome".

It was all very well for Craig to choose a more adventuresome path in this world, but she, Brenna, had already chosen hers and it did not lead in the same direction.

With me around you might find yourself tempted to give in to the more adventuresome side of your nature.

Without his older brother, Pete was far less adventuresome and more content to do as he was told.

This one had been built in the mid-1800s and relieved of service a century later, at which time it had been bought by the adventuresome young couple that, no longer young, had just moved south.

He was a playful youngster who often let his adventuresome nature get the better of him, and from time to time his sense of fun took him beyond the limits of good judgment.

There were some, William Markland knew, as he regarded a crowd around the courthouse door, who were turncoats, adventuresome opportunists, and a few who were knaves, shaping their convictions to circumstance.

If you were an adventuresome soul there was a special space viewing room, but Maslin had never used one.

Yet, from time to time there appeared in the midst of these human dregs an adventuresome individual or group, who in the course of their perigrinations, had heard of my singular nightly revels and contrived to attend.

This one had been built in the mid-1800s and relieved of service a century later, at which time it had been bought by the adventuresome young couple that, no longer young, had just moved south.

At Long Duling, final stop on the languorous river-taxi route, Indonesia Today offered the practical suggestion that the adventuresome traveler seek out the services of one Pa Jutoh Den, combination headman, police official, and tour agent, whose sons were highly recommended as guides on any further jaunts into the wilderness up-country.

Chronicles the Council had neglected in favor of those pertaining to the more successful, adventuresome, or notorious Slayers.

Each of them had a vast array of glassware on top, immensely complicated crystalline intestines of some adventuresome beast, plastic hardware units clamped around tubes and flasks, a spaghetti tangle of wiring and optical cable winding through it all.

The process is thought to have started when some blundering or adventuresome bacterium either invaded or was captured by some other bacterium and it turned out that this suited them both.

The men, as I said, were adventuresome and bold, and they scoffed at the tales of ghosts.