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Definitions: Enterprising |
EnterprisingAdjective1. Marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects; "an enterprising foreign policy"; "an enterprising young man likely to go far". 2. Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative; "an aggressive young exective"; "a pushful insurance agent"; "a pushing youth intent on getting on in the world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "enterprising" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: EnterprisingSynonyms: aggressive (adj), pushful (adj), pushing (adj), pushy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unenterprising (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute. |
Courage | Enterprising, adventurous; venturous, venturesome; dashing, chivalrous; soldierly; (warlike); heroic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Enterprising |
| English words defined with "enterprising": aggressiveness ♦ energy, enterprisingly ♦ get-up-and-go ♦ push ♦ slowgoing ♦ unenergetic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "enterprising": Cakes, Cotton Cloth ♦ FICKLENESS ♦ gold poachers ♦ MALACHRA ♦ VESPUCCI. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Tell him that Dr. Fleischman is the kind of enterprising, young professional who's chosen to stake his claim right here on the banks of the Alaskan Riviera. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim) Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, bold, vicious. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | View of Pottsville Taken from Sharp Mountain & respectfully dedicated to the enterprising citizens of the Coal Region by J.R. Smith / / J.R. Smith, junr. del. ; J.R. Smith, senr. sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Christian Nevell Bovee | The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The apparent lack of suitable franchisees is seen as the only significant growth barrier and illustrates a need for more enterprising individuals to consider franchising as an option. (references) | |
Economic History | India | In urban areas, the more enterprising retailers provide credit and home-delivery. (references) |
El Salvador | Rich soil, moderate climate, and a hard-working and enterprising labor pool comprise El Salvador's greatest assets. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | The enterprising spirit which has characterized our naval force and its success, both in restraining insults and depredations on our coasts and in reprisals on the enemy, will not fail to recommend an enlargement of it. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Commercial treaties promising great advantages to our enterprising merchants and navigators have been formed with the distant Governments of Muscat and Siam. |
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| "Enterprising" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.63% of the time. "Enterprising" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 57.63% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 36.44% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.85% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 118 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "enterprising": ambitious-enterprising, ever-enterprising. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
enterprising woman | 5 |
enterprising | 4 |
enterprising has he in interest recognizes she success talented that va vested | 3 |
enterprising kitchen | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "enterprising"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me iniciativë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مقدام (bold, fearless, intrepid, plucky, venturesome), مغامر (adventurer, adventurous, audacious, buccaneer, escapade, foolhardy, gambler, rash, reckless, venturesome), مبادر (entrepreneur, originator, promoter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | готов да поеме рискове, енергичен (active, arduous, brisk, demon, driving, energetic, firm, go-go, hearty, keen, live, nervous, pithy, pushing, red blooded, robust, sharp, smart, snappy, spanking, spicy, spirited, spunky, strong-minded, up and coming, vigorous, vital, youthful, zappy, zippy), предприемчив (adventurous, aggressive, bold, driving, go ahead, pushing, up and coming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 进取 (Aggressive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | energický (assertive, brisk, decisive, decisively, energetic, firm, forceful, forcefully, go ahead, high-powered, perky, red blooded, strenuous, strong, vigorous, vital), prùbojný (energetic, pushful), podnikavý (pushful), iniciativní (go ahead). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ondernemend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | entreprenema. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yritteliäs, toimekas (active, busy), puuhakas (active, busy), puuha (active, busy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | entreprenant, initiateur, hardi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unternehmungslustig (adventuresome, adventurous, enterprisingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιχειρηματικόσ, επιχειρηματίασ (businessman, operator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יזמ י (venturesome), בעל יוזמ", ועז (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, desperate, fearless, forward, venturesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vállalkozó szellemû (adventurous, venturesome), vállalkozó szellemű (adventurous, pushing, venturesome), nehézségektől vissza nem riadó, nehézségektől meg nem riadó, merész (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, coup, daring, foolhardy, hazardous, intrepid, parlous, plucky, presumptuous, risky, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), bátor (ballsy, bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, Doughty, dreadnought, fearless, gallant, gritty, Hardy, manful, mettlesome, plucky, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout hearted, valiant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | giat (mobile, pushing, vigorous), cergas (active, energetic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | intraprendente (aggressive, go ahead, pushing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 事業家 (businessman, enterprising man, industrialist), 企業心 (enterprising spirit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きぎょうし" (enterprising spirit), じぎょうか (businessman, enterprising man, industrialist, industrialization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | treealysagh, entreilagh (accessibility, admissible). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | foretaksom. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enterprisingay empreendedor (adventurous, entertain, go ahead, pushful, pushing). (various references) cutezãtor (bold, boldly, courageous, daring, daringly, dashing, foolhardy, Hardy, intrepid, intrepidly, nervy, stout), cu iniţiativã, întreprinzãtor (go ahead, pushful, pushing). (various references) предприимчивый (adventurous, enterprisewide, go ahead, gumptious, pushful, pushing). (various references) preduzimljiv (adventurous, entrepreneurial, venturesome), preduzetan. (various references) emprendedor (aggressive, entrepreneur, go ahead, pushful, pushing). (various references) företagsam. (various references) ที่กล้าไ"้กล้าเสีย. (various references) uyanık (alert, argus-eyed, astir, awake, aware, canny, conscious, fly, guarded, heady, leery, nimble, on the alert, open-eyed, sharp, shrewd, sleepless, smart, unwinking, vigilant, wakeful, waking, wary, watchful, wide awake, with it), girişken (aggressive, clubable, clubbable, clubby, companionable, full of pep, pushful, pushing, sociable, up and coming), girişimci (entrant, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, go ahead, promoter), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), atılgan (adventuresome, aggressive, bold, brash, dare devil, fiery, Hardy, reckless, venturesome). (various references) хитрий (arch, argute, artful, astute, canny, cattish, crafty, cunning, devious, doleful, foxy, hard-headed, leery, pawky, shifting, shrewd, sly, tricky, wide, wily), нерозсудливо хоробрий, підпри"мливий (adventurous, pushful, pushing). (various references) dám l m (go-ahead, pushing). (various references) anturiaethus (adventurous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "enterprising": unenterprising. (additional references) | |
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"Enterprising" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enterprizing, entrerprising. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "enterprising" (pronounced e"nterprī'zing or e"nerprī'zing) |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, centralizing, characterizing, colorizing, commercializing, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
| 4 | -ī' z i ng | advertising, aggrandizing, amortizing, analyzing, antagonizing, apologizing, appetizing, authorizing, brutalizing, cannibalizing, capitalizing, categorizing, centralizing, characterizing, colorizing, commercializing, compromising, computerizing, criminalizing, criticizing, crystallizing, customizing, decentralizing, deemphasizing, dehumanizing, demilitarizing, democratizing, demonizing, demoralizing, denationalizing, desensitizing, destabilizing, digitizing, downsizing, dramatizing, economizing, editorializing, emphasizing, energizing, equalizing, exercising, fantasizing, federalizing, fertilizing, finalizing, formalizing, fraternizing, galvanizing, generalizing, harmonizing, humanizing, hydrolyzing, idolizing, immobilizing, immunizing, improvising, industrializing, ionizing, ironizing, itemizing, jeopardizing, legalizing, legitimizing, liberalizing, marginalizing, materializing, maximizing, memorizing, merchandising, mesmerizing, minimizing, mobilizing, modernizing, monopolizing, moralizing, nationalizing, neutralizing, normalizing, organizing, oxidizing, paralyzing, patronizing, penalizing, personalizing, polarizing, politicizing, popularizing, prioritizing, privatizing, proselytizing, publicizing, rationalizing, realizing, reauthorizing, recapitalizing, recognizing, reorganizing, revitalizing, revolutionizing, romanticizing, sanitizing, satirizing, scrutinizing, securitizing, socializing, specializing, stabilizing, standardizing, sterilizing, stigmatizing, subsidizing, summarizing, supervising, symbolizing, sympathizing, synthesizing, tantalizing, televising, temporizing, terrorizing, theorizing, tranquilizing, trivializing, unappetizing, unionizing, utilizing, vandalizing, verbalizing, visualizing, womanizing. |
| 3 | -z i ng | abusing, accusing, advising, agonizing, amazing, amusing, appeasing, appraising, arising, arousing, blazing, boozing, bowsing, browsing, bruising, bulldozing, buzzing, carousing, causing, chastising, choosing, cleansing, closing, composing, comprising, confusing, cruising, decomposing, decriminalizing, defusing, devising, diffusing, disclosing, disguising, disposing, dozing, easing, enclosing, espousing, excusing, exposing, foreclosing, franchising, freezing, fusing, gazing, glamorizing, glazing, grazing, hazing, hosing, housing, immortalizing, imposing, infusing, institutionalizing, losing, misusing, musing, nosing, oozing, opposing, overgrazing, overusing, paraphrasing, pausing, perusing, phasing, phrasing, pleasing, posing, praising, predisposing, proposing, quizzing, raising, razing, recusing, refusing, reimposing, reusing, revising, rising, Rosing, schmoozing, seizing, sensationalizing, sizing, sneezing, snoozing, squeezing, strategizing, supposing, surprising, teasing, uncompromising, unsurprising, uprising, using, victimizing, warehousing, wheezing, whizzing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: reinserting. | |
-2 letters: eternising, presenting, printeries, reprinting. | |
-3 letters: inserting, interring, peregrins, pestering, priesting, printings, reignites, reinspire, renesting, repenting, reprising, resenting, respiring, respiting, sintering, spinneret, springier, sprinting, stringier. | |
-4 letters: einstein, entering, gentries, ginniest, grinners, gripiest, igniters, inserter, inspirer, integers, intenser, internes, nineties, niteries, peregrin, petering, pineries, preening, prerinse, prestige, printers, printing, pristine, reesting, register, reignite, reinsert. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: interspersing. | |
+2 letters: peregrinations, unenterprising. | |
+3 letters: misinterpreting, misrepresenting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01110000 01110010 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E n t e r p r i s i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006E 0074 0065 0072 0070 0072 0069 0073 0069 006E 0067 |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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