venturous

Synonyms

adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing, emboldened, enterprising, free-swinging, gutsy, hardy, nerved, nervy, venturesome;

Antonyms

unadventurous, unenterprising;

Near Antonyms

chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, craven, lily-livered, milk-livered, milky, shy, timid, timorous;

careful, cautious, heedful, prudent, wary;

overcareful, overcautious;

affrighted, afraid, alarmed, fainthearted, fearful, frightened, horrified, scared, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified, terrorized;

unnerved;

calm, cool, levelheaded, rational, reasonable, sage, sane, sensible, sound, wise;

appalled, concerned, dismayed, upset, worried;

Related Words

brash, daredevil, foolhardy, heedless, hotheaded, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incautious, madcap, overbold, overconfident, rash, reckless, thoughtless, wild;

brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, swashbuckling, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous;

gritty, plucky, spirited, spunky;

hasty, headlong, precipitate;

absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crazy, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, lunatic, mad, nutty, scatterbrained, silly, wacky (also whacky), witless;

unnecessary;

dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, stupid;

irrational, unreasonable;