Adventurous vs. Enterprising — What's the Difference?

Willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences

Showing initiative and willingness to undertake new projects

Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises

Displaying bravery and daring in attempting some task.

Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky

Very able and ingenious in business dealings or social advancement.

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

Present participle of enterprise

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

The undertaking of an enterprise; purposeful activity; doings.

Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; - applied to persons.

Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; - applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.

Marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects;

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;

Marked by aggressive ambition and energy and initiative;