as in adventurous
inclined or willing to take risks
not inclined to be adventuresome when it comes to foreign travel, preferring guided bus tours that stick to the beaten path
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Recent Examples of adventuresome
Those were adventuresome yet safe days in postwar Los Angeles.
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Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
Travel After a long career with the FBI, Mary Beth Kepner was looking forward to an adventuresome retirement with her husband, Floyd Spinner.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
Future menu rotations could be even more adventuresome.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Sixty-something art historian and grandmother Lorna Mott Dumas is the novel’s adventuresome test case.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 June 2021
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Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
Travel After a long career with the FBI, Mary Beth Kepner was looking forward to an adventuresome retirement with her husband, Floyd Spinner.
—Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023
Future menu rotations could be even more adventuresome.
—Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021
Sixty-something art historian and grandmother Lorna Mott Dumas is the novel’s adventuresome test case.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 June 2021
See All Example Sentences for adventuresome
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adventuresome
adventurous
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For one thing: Bruce Springsteen heard Church’s new album, Evangeline vs. the Machine, an adventurous project that introduces orchestral and choral sounds to Church’s rebellious brand of country music.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
6 June 2025
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The dancer dreams of one day starting a travel TV show with his adventurous pup, on which they ping-pong around the world, helping to rescue stray animals and exploring the dances and cultures of other countries.—
Kelli Bender,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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“Adventuresome.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adventuresome. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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