Word Meanings - ADVENTUREFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to adventure.

Related words: (words related to ADVENTUREFUL)

• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ADVENTUREFUL
  Given to adventure.
• ADVENTURER
  1. One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises. 2. A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• ADVENTURE
  LL. adventura, fr. L. advenire, adventum, to arrive, which in the 1. 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
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• COADVENTURE
  An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
• PERADVENTURE
  By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. "If peradventure he speak against me." Shak. Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii.
• MISADVENTURED
  Unfortunate.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• MISADVENTURE
  Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure , homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable