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