Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AD-VENT'UR-OUS
AD-VENT'UR-INGAD-VENT'UR-OUS-LY
AD-VENT'UR-OUS, a. [Fr. aventureux.]
- Inclined, or willing to incur hazard; bold to encounter danger; daring; courageous; enterprising: applied to persons.
- Full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger; requiring courage: applied to things; as, an adventurous undertaking. And followed freedom on the adventurous tide. – Trumbull.
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