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adventuresome
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ad·ven·ture·some  (d-vnchr-sm)
adj.
Disposed to engage in risky activities or enterprises. See Synonyms at adventurous.
ad·venture·some·ly adv.
ad·venture·some·ness n.
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Adj.1.adventuresome - willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprisesadventuresome - willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"
adventurous
bold - fearless and daring; "bold settlers on some foreign shore"; "a bold speech"; "a bold adventure"
brave, courageous - possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory"
incautious - lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk"
Translations
adventuresome [ədˈvɛntʃərsəm] (US) adj → aventureux/euse
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But the measure of influence will depend upon how vigorously African American artists persist in utilizing African-inspired traditions to pursue what the poet/scholar Nathaniel Mackey has observed in vanguard jazz--"the adventuresomeness, the risk-taking, the inclination to move into uncharted and undefined areas, the less-conventionalized and commodified areas" (qtd.
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