Adventurous vs. Adventure — What's the Difference?
![](webp/adventurous-vs-adventure-3384.webp)
Difference Between Adventurous and Adventure
ADVERTISEMENT
Definitions
Adventurous
Willing to take risks or to try out new methods, ideas, or experiences
An adventurous traveller
Adventure
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.
Adventurous
Inclined to undertake new and daring enterprises
"routes first sailed ... by another generation of tough, adventurous seafarers, the clipper men" (Tim Zimmermann).
Adventure
An unusual and exciting or daring experience
Her recent adventures in Italy
Adventurous
Requiring or characterized by boldness or daring; hazardous; risky
Adventurous travels.
ADVERTISEMENT
Adventure
Engage in daring or risky activity
They had adventured into the forest
Adventurous
Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
Adventure
An undertaking or enterprise of a hazardous nature.
Adventurous
Full of risks; risky; liable to be in danger; requiring courage; rash.
Take an adventurous viewpoint
Adventure
An undertaking of a questionable nature, especially one involving intervention in another state's affairs.
ADVERTISEMENT
Adventurous
Inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; - applied to persons.
Bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous Eve.
Adventure
An unusual or exciting experience
An adventure in dining.
Adventurous
Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage; rash; - applied to acts; as, an adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
Adventure
Participation in hazardous or exciting experiences
The love of adventure.
Adventurous
Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises;
Adventurous pioneers
The risks and gains of an adventuresome economy
Adventure
A financial speculation or business venture.
Adventure
To venture upon; undertake or try
Adventure a joke.
Adventure
To expose to danger or risk
"I had adventured other people's safety in a course of self-indulgence" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Adventure
To proceed despite risks
Adventure into the wilderness.
Adventure
To take a risk; dare
"the first glass of wine I have adventured to drink" (Lawrence Sterne).
Adventure
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.
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
A life full of adventures.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure
(uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
His sense of adventure
Adventure
(video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
Adventure
(obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
Adventure
(obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
Adventure
(obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
Adventure
To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
Adventure
That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
Nay, a far less good to man it will be found, if she must, at all adventures, be fastened upon him individually.
Adventure
Risk; danger; peril.
He was in great adventure of his life.
Adventure
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.
He loved excitement and adventure.
Adventure
A remarkable occurrence; a striking event; a stirring incident; as, the adventures of one's life.
Adventure
A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
Adventure
To risk, or hazard; jeopard; to venture.
He would not adventure himself into the theater.
Adventure
To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
Yet they adventured to go back.
Discriminations might be adventured.
Adventure
To try the chance; to take the risk.
I would adventure for such merchandise.
Adventure
A wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
Adventure
Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome;
When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Adventure
Put at risk;
I will stake my good reputation for this