English Dictionary
◊ VENTUROUS
venturous
adj 1: 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" [syn: {hazardous}, {risky}, {venturesome}]
2: 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" [syn: {audacious}, {daring}, {venturesome}]