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Adjectives (6)
bold
adj. willing to take risks and try new things: "a new venturesome spirit among today's young people"
daring, audacious, venturous
adj. 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"
venturous, hazardous
adj. involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"
Fuzzynyms (28)
gallant, dashing
adj. lively and spirited; "a dashing hero"
venturesome, venturous, hazardous
adj. involving risk or danger; "skydiving is a hazardous sport"; "extremely risky going out in the tide and fog"; "a wild financial scheme"
bold
adj. fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
smart, fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, saucy
adj. improperly forward or bold; "don't be fresh with me"; "impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup"; "an impudent boy given to insulting strangers"; "Don't get wise with me!"
assumptive, assuming, presumptuous
adj. excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
brave, fearless, courageous
adj. possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"
daredevil, brash, temerarious
adj. presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff"
rash, foolhardy, reckless
adj. marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences; "foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest"
daring, audacious, venturesome, venturous
adj. 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"
Synonyms (29)
industrious, energetic, gumptious, up-and-coming
adj. working hard to promote an enterprise
entrepreneurial
adj. willing to take risks in order to make a profit
innovative
adj. being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before; "stylistically innovative works"; "innovative members of the artistic community"; "a mind so innovational, so original"
sporting
adj. involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood"
swashbuckling, swaggering
adj. flamboyantly adventurous
breakneck
adj. moving at very high speed; "a breakneck pace"
dodgy, chancy, chanceful, dicey, hazardous, risky
adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
heroic, desperate
adj. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair; "a desperate criminal"; "taken hostage of desperate men"
harmful
adj. able or likely to do harm
insidious
adj. intended to entrap
on the hook
adj. caught in a difficult or dangerous situation; "there I was back on the hook"
precarious, parlous, perilous, touch-and-go
adj. fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
self-destructive, suicidal
adj. dangerous to yourself or your interests; "suicidal impulses"; "a suicidal corporate takeover strategy"; "a kamikaze pilot"
unreliable, treacherous
adj. dangerously unstable and unpredictable; "treacherous winding roads"; "an unreliable trestle"
Antonyms (2)
safe, non-dangerous
adj. free from danger or the risk of harm; "a safe trip"; "you will be safe here"; "a safe place"; "a safe bet"
venturesome
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