[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

adventurous \adven"turous\, a. oe. aventurous, aunterous, of.
   aventuros, f. aventureux, fr. aventure. see adventure, n.
   1. inclined to adventure; willing to incur hazard; prone to
      embark in hazardous enterprise; rashly daring; -- applied
      to persons.
      1913 webster

            bold deed thou hast presumed, adventurous eve.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. full of hazard; attended with risk; exposing to danger;
      requiring courage; rash; -- applied to acts; as, an
      adventurous undertaking, deed, song.
      1913 webster

   syn: rash; foolhardy; presumptuous; enterprising; daring;
        hazardous; venturesome. see rash.
        1913 webster
see also:
adventure rash 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

adventurous
     adj : willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring
           enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and
           gains of an adventuresome economy" syn: adventuresome
           ant: unadventurous
see also:
adventuresome unadventurous 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

62 moby thesaurus words for "adventurous":
   adventuresome, adversary, aggressive, aleatory, ambitious,
   antagonist, anti, assaulter, attacker, audacious, bold, brash,
   brave, chancy, con, courageous, daredevil, daring, death-defying,
   devil-may-care, dicey, doughty, driving, dynamic, enterprising,
   fire-eating, foolhardy, forceful, forward, full of risk, go-ahead,
   harebrained, hazardous, hotheaded, hustling, impetuous, imprudent,
   intrepid, madbrain, madbrained, madcap, match, opposer, oppugnant,
   overbold, overconfident, presumptuous, pushful, pushing, pushy,
   rash, reckless, riskful, risky, speculative, temerarious,
   up-and-coming, venturesome, venturous, wild, wild-ass, wildcat

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