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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

likely to engage in risky or dangerous activities, brave or venturesome; risky or hazardous in nature;

e.g. Part of his success as a mountaineer is due to his venturous nature.

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Similar Words

Adventuresome

Adventurous

Audacious

Bold

Competitive

Daring

Dashing

Emboldened

Enterprising

Gutsy

Hardy

High-flying

Hotheaded

Impetuous

Motivated

Nerved

Nervy

Opportunistic

Plucky

Trigger-happy

Unafraid

Unapologetic

Undeterred

Undismayed

Unsubdued

Unswerving

Venturesome

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Opposite Words

Afraid

Aghast

Alarmed

Calm

Careful

Cautious

Chickenhearted

Concerned

Cool

Coward

Cowardly

Craven

Dismayed

Fainthearted

Fearful

Fearsome

Frightened

Heedful

Hysteric

Hysterical

Levelheaded

Lily-livered

Milky

Overcareful

Overcautious

Panic-stricken

Phobic

Poltroon

Pusillanimous

Sage

Sane

Scared

Scary

Shocked

Shy

Skittish

Timid

Timorous

Tremulous

Unadventurous

Unexcited

Upset

Wary

Worried

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Related Words

Absurd

Aggressive

Ambitious

Asinine

Aspiring

Assertive

Audacious

Balmy

Bold

Brainless

Brash

Brave

Courageous

Crazy

Daredevil

Dauntless

Doughty

Dumb

Enterprising

Fearless

Fierce

Foolhardy

Foolish

Gadarene

Gallant

Greathearted

Gritty

Gutsy

Gutty

Hard-driving

Harebrained

Hasty

Headlong

Heedless

Heroic

High-pressure

Hotheaded

Idiotic

Impetuous

Imprudent

Impulsive

In-your-face

Incautious

Insane

Intrepid

Irrational

Lionhearted

Lunatic

Mad

Madcap

Manful

Militant

Nutty

Overbold

Overconfident

Plucky

Precipitate

Pushing

Pushy

Rash

Reckless

Self-asserting

Self-assertive

Self-seeking

Silly

Spirited

Spunky

Stalwart

Stout

Stouthearted

Stupid

Swashbuckling

Temerarious

Thoughtless

Unafraid

Undaunted

Unnecessary

Unreasonable

Valiant

Valorous

Wacky

Whacky

Wild

Witless

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