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adventurous
adjective
1 adventurous
Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises:
— Adventurous pioneers.
synonym: adventuresome.
Roget 665:
in danger
etc.
n.;
endangered
etc.
v.;
fraught with danger;
dangerous,
hazardous,
perilous,
parlous,
periculous†;
unsafe,
unprotected
etc.
(safe, protect)
etc.
664;
insecure.
untrustworthy;
built upon. sand,
on a sandy basis;
wildcat.
defenseless,
fenceless,
guardless†,
harborless;
unshielded;
vulnerable,
expugnable†,
exposed;
open to
etc.
(liable)
177.
aux abois [Fr.],
at bay;
on the wrong side of the wall,
on a lee shore,
on the rocks.
at stake,
in question;
precarious,
critical,
ticklish;
slippery,
slippy;
hanging by a thread
etc.
v.;
with a halter round one's neck;
between the hammer and the anvil,
between Scylla and Charybdis,
between a rock and a hard place,
between the devil and the deep blue sea,
between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice,
on the brink of a precipice,
on the verge of a precipice,
on the edge of a volcano;
in the lion's den,
on slippery ground,
under fire;
not out of the wood.
unwarned,
unadmonished,
unadvised,
unprepared
etc.
674;
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
tottering;
unstable,
unsteady;
shaky,
top-heavy,
tumbledown,
ramshackle,
crumbling,
waterlogged;
helpless,
guideless†;
in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity,
at the last extremity;
trembling in the balance;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162.
threatening
etc.
909;
ominous,
illomened;
alarming
etc.
(fear)
860;
explosive.
adventurous
etc.
(rash)
863,
(bold)
861.
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Roget 861:
courageous,
brave;
valiant,
valorous;
gallant,
intrepid;
spirited,
spiritful†;
high-spirited,
high-mettled†;
mettlesome,
plucky;
manly,
manful;
resolute;
stout,
stout-hearted;
iron-hearted,
lion-hearted;
heart of oak;
Penthesilean.
bold,
bold-spirited;
daring,
audacious;
fearless,
dauntless,
dreadless†,
aweless;
undaunted,
unappalled,
undismayed,
unawed,
unblanched,
unabashed,
unalarmed,
unflinching,
unshrinking†,
unblanching†,
unapprehensive;
confident,
self-reliant;
bold as a lion,
bold as brass.
enterprising,
adventurous;
venturous,
venturesome;
dashing,
chivalrous;
soldierly
etc.
(warlike)
722;
heroic.
fierce,
savage;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720.
strong-minded,
hardy,
doughty;
firm
etc.
(stable)
150;
determined
etc.
(resolved)
604;
dogged,
indomitable
etc.
(persevering)
604.1.
up to,
up to the scratch;
upon one's mettle;
reassured
etc.
v.;
unfeared†,
undreaded†.
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Roget 863:
rash,
incautious,
indiscreet;
imprudent,
improvident,
temerarious;
uncalculating†;
heedless;
careless
etc.
(neglectful)
460;
without ballast,
heels over head,
head over heels;
giddy
etc.
(inattentive)
458;
wanton,
reckless,
wild,
madcap;
desperate,
devil-may-care.
hot-blooded,
hotheaded,
hotbrained†;
headlong,
headstrong;
breakneck;
foolhardy;
harebrained;
precipitate,
impulsive.
overconfident,
overweening;
venturesome,
venturous;
adventurous,
Quixotic,
fire eating,
cavalier;
janty†,
jaunty,
free and easy.
off one's guard
etc.
(inexpectant)
508†.
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