adventurous
adjective
inclined or willing to engage in adventures; enjoying adventures.
adventurousness
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a word derived from
adventurous.
Example Sentences
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That’s the other side of the adventurousness, the charisma, the man ahead of his time who always wore the same hat so that people would identify his silhouette—he understood branding.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
While his artistic adventurousness may have waxed and waned, John Wilson never failed to champion humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Rather than positioning foods like tongue and pigs' ears as familiar and comforting, a willingness to embrace the yuck factor became a sign of adventurousness, even masculinity.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024
“She represents freedom, dreaming big, adventurousness, seeking out the unknown,” said Jane Mendelsohn, who captured the heroine’s complicated mystique in a novel, “I Was Amelia Earhart.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
