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adventurous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of adventurous

inclined or willing to take risks

let's be adventurous and take a bus into the city for New Year's Eve this year

Synonyms of adventurous

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

Words Related to adventurous

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

gadarene, hasty, headlong, precipitate

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

dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, stupid

irrational, unreasonable

Near Antonyms of adventurous

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

careful, cautious, heedful, prudent, wary

overcareful, overcautious

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

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

appalled, concerned, dismayed, upset, worried

Antonyms of adventurous

unadventurous, unenterprising

Synonym Discussion of adventurous

adventurous, venturesome, daring, daredevil, rash, reckless, foolhardy mean exposing oneself to danger more than required by good sense. adventurous implies a willingness to accept risks but not necessarily imprudence.

- adventurous pioneers

venturesome implies a jaunty eagerness for perilous undertakings.

- venturesome stunt pilots

daring implies fearlessness in courting danger.

- daring mountain climbers

daredevil stresses ostentation in daring.

- daredevil motorcyclists

rash suggests imprudence and lack of forethought.

- a rash decision

reckless implies heedlessness of probable consequences.

- a reckless driver

foolhardy suggests a recklessness that is inconsistent with good sense.

- the foolhardy sailor ventured into the storm

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