Adventurous vs. Venturesome — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adventurous and Venturesome
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Definitions
Adventurous➦
Willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences
An adventurous traveller
Venturesome➦
Disposed to venture or to take risks; daring.
Adventurous➦
Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises
"routes first sailed ... by another generation of tough, adventurous seafarers, the clipper men" (Tim Zimmermann).
Venturesome➦
Involving risk or danger; hazardous
A venturesome expedition up Mount Everest.
Adventurous➦
Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky
Adventurous travels.
Venturesome➦
Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous.
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Adventurous➦
Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
Venturesome➦
Potentially hazardous; risky.
Adventurous➦
Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
Take an adventurous viewpoint
Venturesome➦
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act.
Adventurous➦
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; - applied to persons.
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
Venturesome➦
Involving risk or danger;
Skydiving is a hazardous sport
Extremely risky going out in the tide and fog
A venturesome journey in wintertime
A venturous enterprise
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Adventurous➦
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; - applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Venturesome➦
Willing to try new things and take risks;
There is a new venturesome spirit among young people today
Adventurous➦
Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;
Adventurous pioneers
The risks and gains of an adventuresome economy
Venturesome➦
Disposed to venture or take risks;
Audacious visions of the total conquest of space
An audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas
The most daring of contemporary fiction writers
A venturesome investor
A venturous spirit
