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Meanings of adventuresome in English

Portuguese
aventureiro
Catalan
arriscat

Willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises.

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aventureiro
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Examples for "adventurous"
1
To Advertiser: Am 26; late captain of Engineers; University graduate adventurous disposition.
The Case and the Girl
2
Lemuel is a very good shot, in case you have adventurous ideas.
Perdido Street Station
3
His career in Virginia was as adventurous as in the Old World.
A Brief History of the United States
4
Galligan's adventurous spirit appears to have been moulded at an early age.
The Irish Times
5
Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me.
The After House
Usage of adventuresome in English
1
A half-score of adventuresome gulls were still following in the foam-churned wake.
The Blood Red Dawn
2
It was that remote and threatening to all but the most adventuresome.
Born to run: a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the greatest rac...
3
Lilli had been an adventuresome and somewhat outrageous young woman for her day.
The house
4
He suffered a painful illness at the close of his vigorous, adventuresome life.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
5
His adventuresome spirit is captured in this obituary by Greg Crouch.
Rock and Ice Magazine
6
If so, the beginning, to an adventuresome young spirit, seemed promising.
Malvina of Brittany
7
One of the more adventuresome reporters grilled some of the fish on the spot.
Kafka on the Shore
8
The smile was devastating, the eyes were guileless and adventuresome.
Rogues
9
He was like Julian, but freer and more adventuresome.
Jewels
10
And here is a caution to the adventuresome.
The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère
11
During the selection process, special attention is given to projects with strong exploratory and adventuresome mountaineering components.
Climbing Magazine
12
The workers needed to eat but never had the time-particularlywith thirty-minutelunch breaks-todo anything adventuresome.
King of the godfathers: "big joey" massino and the fall of the b...
13
Every boy who knows Billy Topsail will welcome this continuation of his adventuresome life in the North.
Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children
14
She's got the adventuresome streak, I guess.
Coyote dreams
15
What an adventuresome day-Bagone crow-oneMahseer.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
16
Yet, as near as he could find out, his life had been anything but adventuresome or varied.
The Triflers
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Portuguese
aventureiro
Adventuresome through the time