venturous
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of venturous
1555–65; venture + -ous; see adventurous
Explanation
Someone who's venturous has a bold, brave spirit and isn't afraid to take risks. Your venturous nature might make your mom call you a daredevil. Use the adjective venturous when you need an old fashioned way to describe a daring person. Mountain climbers and competitive skiers are venturous, and a little girl on her brand new skateboard, zipping down the driveway, is also venturous. It's more common these days to use the related, original adjective adventurous. Both words come from the Old French root aventuros, which means "chance, accidental, or fortuitous."
Vocabulary lists containing venturous
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Richard III
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Example Sentences
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So I reported Deaver’s tale in my previous column about the grace and grit displayed by the queen on her venturous 10-day trip.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2022
She had grace and grit — lifelong characteristics that were brightly displayed on a venturous trip to California in 1983.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2022
Titania in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: I have a venturous fairy that shall seek the squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2020
The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer venturous playgoers a measure of dramatic experiment and serious theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a venturous master of a vessel who left the roadstead of Stromness without paying his offering to propitiate Bessie Millie!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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