venturous

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9

Definition of venturous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Adventurous; venturesome; willing to undertake activities involving risk.
    “[H]e 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.”
    “Let Prudence yet obſtruct thy venturous way; / And take good heed, what men will think and ſay: / That beauteous Emma vagrant courſes took; / Her father's houſe and civil life forſook; / That, full of youthful blood, and fond of man; / She to the wood-land with an exile ran.”

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Etymology

From venture + -ous.

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