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]

English

Adjective

1. Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
   • 1666: John Bunyan, The Pilgrim`s Progress http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=115246623&tag=Bunyan,+John:+The+Pilgrim%60s+Progress,+1666&query=+venturous&id=BunPilg

     ...he shewed me a stately palace, and how the people were clad in gold that were in it; and how there came a venturous man and cut his way through the armed men that stood in the door to keep him out, and how he was bid to come in, and win eternal glory.

Related terms

• nothing ventured, nothing gained