Adventuresome vs. Swaggering

Adventuresomeadjective

Prone to, or willing to undertake, adventures; daring or bold.

Swaggeringadjective

Boastful, proud, self-confident.

Adventuresomeadjective

Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome.

Swaggeringnoun

Boastful, blustering behaviour.

Adventuresomeadjective

willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;

‘adventurous pioneers’; ‘the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy’;

Swaggeringadjective

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;

‘some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines’; ‘haughty aristocrats’; ‘his lordly manners were offensive’; ‘walked with a prideful swagger’; ‘very sniffy about breaches of etiquette’; ‘his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air’; ‘shaggy supercilious camels’; ‘a more swaggering mood than usual’;

Adventuresomeadjective

given to adventures or to running risks; adventurous

‘three adventuresome, energetic boys’;

Swaggeringadjective

flamboyantly adventurous

Swaggering

Swaggering is an ostentatious style of walking affected by someone wishing to assert their dominance. It is also a form of machismo or sexual display which takes up more space than needed for simple motion.