Word Meanings - VENTUROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Daring; bold; hardy; fearless; venturesome; adveturous; as, a venturous soldier. Spenser. This said, he paused not, but with venturous arm He plucked, he tasted. Milton. -- Ven"tur*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven"tur*ous*ness, n.

Related words: (words related to VENTUROUS)

• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• TASTY
  1. Having a good taste; -- applied to persons; as, a tasty woman. See Taste, n., 5. 2. Being in conformity to the principles of good taste; elegant; as, tasty furniture; a tasty dress.
• DARREIN
  Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• DARKNESS
  1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• DARING
  Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• DARE
  To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
• DARKENING
  Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
• DARLINGTONIA
  A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
• PAUSINGLY
  With pauses; haltingly. Shak.
• DARER
  One who dares or defies.
• DARKLING
  In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
• DARKLE
  To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
• DARR
  The European black tern.
• SOLDIERING
  1. The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier. 2. The act of feigning to work. See the Note under Soldier, v. i., 2.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• PENTASTICH
  A composition consisting of five verses.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• PANDARISM
  See SWIFT
• PANDARIZE
  To pander.
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• CEDARN
  Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• METASTOMA; METASTOME
  A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
• GENDARMERY
  The body of gendarmes.
• DISTASTURE
  Something which excites distaste or disgust. Speed.