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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. disposed to venture or take risks;
- Example: "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"
- Example: "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"
- Example: "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"
- Example: "a venturesome investor"
- Example: "a venturous spirit"
[syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Venturous \Ven"tur*ous\, a. [Aphetic form of OE. aventurous. See Adventurous, Venture, n.] Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adventurous; as, a venturous soldier. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm He plucked, he tasted. --Milton. [1913 Webster] -- Ven"tur*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven"tur*ous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]
