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Definition: Venturesome |
VenturesomeAdjective1. 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". 2. Willing to try new things and take risks; "there is a new venturesome spirit among young people today". 3. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "venturesome" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: VenturesomeSynonyms: audacious (adj), daring (adj), hazardous (adj), risky (adj), venturous (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Enterprising, adventurous; venturous, venturesome; dashing, chivalrous; soldierly; (warlike); heroic. |
Rashness | Hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck; foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening; venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier; janty, jaunty, free and easy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Venturesome |
| English words defined with "venturesome": audacious ♦ daring ♦ hazardous ♦ nonenterprising ♦ risky ♦ unenterprising ♦ venture, venturous. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Venturesome" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Venturesome" is used about 9 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) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "venturesome": over-venturesome. | |
| 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 |
venturesome | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "venturesome"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i kuturisur (adventurous, Venturous), aventurier (adventurer, adventurous, gold digger, venturer, Venturous). (various references) | |
Arabic | منطو على مغامرة, مقدام (bold, enterprising, fearless, intrepid, plucky), مغامر (adventurer, adventurous, audacious, buccaneer, enterprising, escapade, foolhardy, gambler, rash, reckless). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смел (adventurous, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dashing, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, high-hearted, high-spirited, manful, manly, martial, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, provocative, slashing, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, thoroughbred, valiant), рискован (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, hazardous, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, queasy, risky, speculative, sporting, touch and go, unsound), готов на риск, дързък (arrogant, assuming, audacious, cheeky, contumelious, cool, daring, defiant, foolhardy, malapert, nervy, overbold, reckless, sassy, saucy). (various references) | |
Czech | odvážný (audacious, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, mettlesome, perilous, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرمخاطره (Precarious, Risky), مخاطره میز, خطرناک (Calamitous, Disastrous, Dngerous, Grave, Herculean, Ill, Jeopardous, Malignant, Perilous, Serious), باتهور. (various references) | |
Finnish | uskalias (audacious, bold, daring, hazardous, risky). (various references) | |
French | aventureux. (various references) | |
German | verwegen (audacious, bold, cheeky, daring, foolhardy, overbold, rash, saucy, venturesomely, venturous, venturously), kühn (audacious, audaciously, bold, boldly, daring, enterprising, enterprisingly, hardily, hardy, heroic, intrepid, intrepidly, provocative, valiant, wild), gewagt (bold, dared, daring, hazardous, off color, racy, reckless, risked, risky, risque, ventured, wildcat), abenteuerlich (adventuresome, adventuresomely, adventurous, adventurously). (various references) | |
Greek | ριψοκίνδυνοσ (adventurous, hazardous, plunger, reckless, sporting), παράτολμοσ (adventurous, breakneck, dare devil, foolhardy, hazardous, presumptuous, reckless). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרחיק לכת (far reaching, sweeping), יזמ י (enterprising), ועז (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, desperate, enterprising, fearless, forward). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vállalkozó szellemû (adventurous, enterprising), vállalkozó szellemű (adventurous, enterprising, pushing), merész (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, coup, daring, enterprising, foolhardy, hazardous, intrepid, parlous, plucky, presumptuous, risky, valiant, valorous, Venturous). (various references) | |
Italian | rischioso (chancy, dicey, hazardous, risky, touch and go, venturous), avventuroso (adventuresome, adventurous). (various references) | |
Manx | ventyragh, gaueagh (dangerous, hazardous, jeopardous, risky). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enturesomevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | temerário (chanceful, daredevil, daring, devil-may-care, foolhardy, overbold, reckless, temerarious, wanton), perigoso (adventure, adventurous, breakneck, chanceful, critical, dangerous, harmful, hazardous, hot, insecure, parlous, perilous, precarious, risky, touch and go, touch-and-go, ugly, unchancy, unsafe), ousado (audacious, chanceful, confident, daring, hardy, high-spirited, intrepid, perky, plucky, reckless, unabashed), aventureiro (adventurer, adventurous, chanceful, go-ahead, golddigger, highrisk, venturer), audaz (audacious, bold, chanceful, courageous, daring, dauntless, devil, intrepid, undaunted), arrojado (audacious, bold, brave, chanceful, cool, courageous, dashing, dauntless, rash, valiant, venturous), arriscado (audacious, breakneck, chanceful, dangerous, daring, hazardous, intrepid, perilous, precarious, risky, scabrous, speculative, touch-and-go, ugly, unsafe). (various references) | |
Romanian | temerar (audacious, daringly, foolhardy, overdaring, rashly, temerarious), riscat (parlous, precarious, risky, wildcat), riscant (chancy, dangerous, dare devil, hazardous, reckless, risky, temerarious, unsafe, wildcat), periculos (awkward, baleful, breakneck, dangerous, dangerously, grave, parlous, perilous, perniciously, risky, trappy, unsafe, wildcat), nesocotit (harum scarum, hasty, ignored, indiscreet, injudicious, scorned, thoughtless, unwise, witless), aventuros (adventuresome, adventurous, dare devil), îndrãzneţ (assuming, audacious, bold, boldly, cheeky, cocky, courageous, daring, fearless, gallant, high-spirited, intrepid, manful, nervy, overdaring, reckless, risky). (various references) | |
Russian | смелый (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, dare devil, game, gritty, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, spirited, spunky, stouthearted, stout-hearted, ventursome), азартный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | smeo (bold, brave, courageous, daring, high-spirited, manful, plucky, risque, venturous), preduzimljiv (adventurous, enterprising, entrepreneurial), drzak (audacious, be insolent, brash, brazenfaced, cheeky, daring, flip, impertinent, impudent, insolent, nervy, overbold, pert, presuming, presumptuous, saucy, temerarious). (various references) | |
Spanish | azaroso, audaz (audacious, bold, fearless, hardy, intrepid), atrevido (audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, foppish, forward, impudent, insolent, naughty, pert, presumptuous). (various references) | |
Swedish | våghalsig (daredevil, swashbuckling, Venturous), riskabel (desperate, perilous, risky, touch and go, Venturous), äventyrlig (adventurous, hazardous, risky). (various references) | |
Turkish | tehlikeli (adventurous, breakneck, danger, dangerous, daring, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, noxious, parlous, perilous, pestilent, pestilential, risky, touch and go, unsafe, wildcat), riskli (adventurous, chancy, dangerous, Dicey, dodgy, forbidding, hairy, hazardous, not healthy, precarious, risky, touch and go, unsure, wildcat), maceraperest (adventurer, adventurous, ruritanian), gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, courageous, dare devil, daring, fearless, gamy, gutsy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, Venturous), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, Venturous), atılgan (adventuresome, aggressive, bold, brash, dare devil, enterprising, fiery, Hardy, reckless). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміливий (amazonian, audacious, cant, courageous, daring, game, gamy, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, reckless, spirited, spunky), ризикований (adventurous, chanceful, chancy, critical, hazardous, naughty, off color, off colour, perilous, precarious, risky, risque, touch and go, touchy, wildcat). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phiêu lưu (adventurous, venturous), mạo hiểm (touch-and-go), liều lĩnh (dare-devil, hare-brained, harum-scarum, rash, reckless, temerarious, wildcat), liều (devil-may-care, hazardous, precarious, rash, risky, venture, wildcat). (various references) | |
Welsh | mentrus. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "venturesome": venturesomely, venturesomeness, venturesomenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "venturesome": adventuresome. (additional references) | |
Words containing "venturesome": adventuresomeness, adventuresomenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "venturesome" (pronounced ve"nkhersum) |
| 8 | v e" n kh er s u m | adventuresome. |
| 4 | -er s u m | bothersome, cumbersome, tiresome. |
| 3 | -s u m | awesome, Balsam, blossom, meddlesome, nettlesome, opossum, possum, quarrelsome, ransom, burdensome, buxom, cataclysm, fearsome, flotsam, foursome, fulsome, gruesome, gypsum, handsome, hansom, irksome, loathsome, lonesome, Maxim, threesome, transom, troublesome, twosome, wearisome, wholesome, winsome, worrisome. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: rousement. | |
-3 letters: mounters, muenster, outserve, overseen, remounts, revenues, routemen, unreeves, venomers, ventures, versemen. | |
-4 letters: emeutes, emoters, entrees, estrone, eveners, evenest, meeters, mentors, meteors, monster, moreens, mounter, munster, nervous, neuters, nostrum, oestrum, oeuvres, outseen, overmen, oversee, overset, overuse, remeets, remotes, remount, removes, retenes, retunes, revenue, revotes, sternum, teemers, teeners, tenours, tenures, tonemes, tonsure, tureens. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-t-u-v" | |
+2 letters: adventuresome, venturesomely. | |
+3 letters: bouleversement. | |
+4 letters: bouleversements, supergovernment, venturesomeness. | |
+5 letters: countermovements, supergovernments. | |
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