Synonyms of enterprising

enterprising

adjective

ˈen-tər-ˌprī-ziŋ 

1

as in aggressive

having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal

the company is claiming that there will be huge financial rewards for enterprising sales representatives

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aggressive
• ambitious
• adventurous
• fierce
• militant
• go-getting
• vigorous
• energetic
• assertive
• confident
• high-pressure
• daring
• in-your-face
• pushy
• warlike
• dynamic
• self-assertive
• belligerent
• pugnacious
• combative
• bold
• self-asserting
• venturesome
• bellicose
• adventuresome
• hustling
• venturous
• quarrelsome
• truculent
• overambitious
• determined
• impudent
• insolent
• gladiatorial
• dashing
• contentious
• strenuous
• argumentative
• gutsy
• disputatious
• feisty
• trigger-happy
• cocky
• cheeky
• obtrusive
• domineering
• emphatic
• bumptious
• hyperaggressive
• emboldened
• overconfident
• brassy
• discordant
• audacious
• unapologetic
• cocksure
• scrappy
• brash
• gung ho
• dominating
• presumptuous
• magisterial
• overbearing
• forward
• unyielding
• unsubdued
• imperious
• lordly
• bare-knuckle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• low-pressure
• unambitious
• easygoing
• unaggressive
• unassertive
• unenterprising
• amenable
• relaxed
• nonassertive
• docile
• tractable
• compliant
• acquiescent
• deferential
• submissive
• yielding
• ambitionless
• humble
• modest
• timid
• passive
• mild
• shrinking
• laid-back
• resigned
• quiet
• meek
• lowly
• subdued
• reserved
• unobtrusive
• bashful
• diffident
• shy
• mousy
• retiring
• servile
• demure
• slavish
• obsequious
• subservient
• groveling
• cowering
• cringing
• overmodest

2

as in adventurous

inclined or willing to take risks

enterprising people of vision were responsible for the boom in technological industries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adventurous
• daring
• courageous
• brave
• fearless
• bold
• venturous
• venturesome
• adventuresome
• hardy
• dashing
• gutsy
• audacious
• impulsive
• nerved
• heroic
• gallant
• reckless
• nervy
• valiant
• intrepid
• emboldened
• foolish
• free-swinging
• impetuous
• plucky
• spirited
• incautious
• daredevil
• imprudent
• thoughtless
• foolhardy
• heedless
• dauntless
• hotheaded
• rash
• valorous
• madcap
• overconfident
• stupid
• undaunted
• spunky
• brash
• unafraid
• wild
• dumb
• stalwart
• silly
• swashbuckling
• hasty
• stouthearted
• scatterbrained
• stout
• mad
• wacky
• gritty
• overbold
• lunatic
• nutty
• brainless
• lionhearted
• unnecessary
• witless
• idiotic
• absurd
• harebrained
• headlong
• unreasonable
• insane
• irrational
• moronic
• asinine
• crazy
• precipitate
• balmy
• half-witted
• greathearted
• gadarene

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• timid
• unenterprising
• careful
• prudent
• unadventurous
• cautious
• timorous
• cowardly
• wary
• craven
• shy
• pusillanimous
• coward
• milky
• heedful
• afraid
• frightened
• fearful
• alarmed
• overcautious
• startled
• lily-livered
• reasonable
• wise
• rational
• terrified
• spooked
• sensible
• chickenhearted
• poltroon
• sane
• scared
• horrified
• sound
• shocked
• cool
• milk-livered
• levelheaded
• unnerved
• calm
• affrighted
• concerned
• overcareful
• sage
• upset
• worried
• terrorized
• fainthearted
• dismayed
• appalled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of enterprising

All Stanford students are ambitious, but many of the most enterprising among them drop out. — Ronan Farrow, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

Our enterprising Gravedigger, a true woman of science, engineers a lizard elixir and regenerates the finger into a long tentacle that eventually demands a body. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

This was little more than a wooden shack beside a convenience store and a karaoke parlor, all of them run by an enterprising resident who had already buried 200 people in the 12 months since Duterte had taken office, nearly all of them drug suspects. — Sheila Coronel, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

During the night, an enterprising photographer with a telephoto lens sneaked upstairs in a building opposite Children’s and found a window in line with Patrick’s room. — Steven Levingston, Vanity Fair, 23 Feb. 2026