Synonyms of adventuresome

adventuresome

adjective

əd-ˈven-chər-səm 

as in adventurous

inclined or willing to take risks

not inclined to be adventuresome when it comes to foreign travel, preferring guided bus tours that stick to the beaten path

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adventurous
• daring
• fearless
• brave
• courageous
• bold
• venturesome
• enterprising
• venturous
• hardy
• impulsive
• gutsy
• dashing
• audacious
• reckless
• heroic
• nerved
• heroical
• nervy
• valiant
• foolish
• gallant
• emboldened
• free-swinging
• impetuous
• intrepid
• spirited
• daredevil
• imprudent
• foolhardy
• thoughtless
• wild
• madcap
• rash
• incautious
• dauntless
• unafraid
• stupid
• spunky
• undaunted
• hotheaded
• overconfident
• plucky
• dumb
• heedless
• silly
• valorous
• brash
• hasty
• stalwart
• mad
• swashbuckling
• gritty
• wacky
• unnecessary
• stouthearted
• headlong
• unreasonable
• nutty
• whacky
• scatterbrained
• absurd
• stout
• crazy
• insane
• overbold
• irrational
• lunatic
• idiotic
• lionhearted
• witless
• harebrained
• precipitate
• asinine
• brainless
• moronic
• balmy
• greathearted
• idiotical
• gadarene
• half-witted

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• timid
• unadventurous
• careful
• cautious
• prudent
• wary
• shy
• craven
• timorous
• cowardly
• unenterprising
• coward
• pusillanimous
• afraid
• milky
• fearful
• frightened
• heedful
• overcautious
• scared
• startled
• alarmed
• terrified
• reasonable
• spooked
• wise
• shocked
• rational
• horrified
• sensible
• chickenhearted
• sound
• lily-livered
• sane
• cool
• unnerved
• calm
• levelheaded
• poltroon
• milk-livered
• affrighted
• concerned
• upset
• worried
• overcareful
• fainthearted
• sage
• terrorized
• dismayed
• appalled

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of adventuresome

Among adventuresome outings offered, a panoramic flight over the Bungle Bungle Range, an undulating marvel of grey and ochre-striped sandstone domes created by more than 20 million years of erosion. —Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2023

Those were adventuresome yet safe days in postwar Los Angeles. —Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Travel After a long career with the FBI, Mary Beth Kepner was looking forward to an adventuresome retirement with her husband, Floyd Spinner. —Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2023

Future menu rotations could be even more adventuresome. —Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 7 Oct. 2021