Adventurous vs. Adventure — What's the Difference?

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

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically bold, sometimes risky or undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports.

Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises

An unusual and exciting or daring experience

Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky

Engage in daring or risky activity

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

An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.

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

An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.

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

An unusual or exciting experience

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

Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;

A financial speculation or business venture.

To venture upon; undertake or try

To expose to danger or risk

To proceed despite risks

To take a risk; dare

The encountering of risks; a bold undertaking, in which dangers are likely to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.

(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.

(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.

(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.

(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.

To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.

Risk; danger; peril.

The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat.

A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.

A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.

To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.

To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.

To try the chance; to take the risk.

A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;

Put at risk;