adventurous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises

   adventurous pioneers

2. 2
   adj

   Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.

   The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

3. 3
   adj

   Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.

   take an adventurous viewpoint

Etymology

From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.